Women Quotes
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Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.
Valerie Jarrett
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There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.
Marie Helvin
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We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success.
Muhtar Kent
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I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.
Caitlin Moran
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Self-defense is so important to know in today's society. It's not just that you might get mugged. It's more for confidence. It's the way you hold yourself when you walk into a room. Every step you take is more sure and you're much more aware of your surroundings. So, I think it's a really important thing - especially for women.
Milla Jovovich
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God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power differentials between men and women operated. We wanted to change those power differentials; we also had a good time.
Mary Beard
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I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
Jennifer Beals
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Apparently, I hear from people I always play strong women. I don't see them that way.
Lynn Whitfield
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Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.
Les Dawson
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We'd certainly have paid leave already by now, we'd have equal pay, we'd have a living minimum wage - a lot of things would change having that diversity of opinion in Washington. We certainly wouldn't be debating whether women should have access to birth control.
Kirsten Gillibrand
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As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.
Rana el Kaliouby
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While women prefer to have a higher-earning partner, men generally prefer to be the higher-earning partner in a relationship.
Phyllis Schlafly
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I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.
Anna Biller
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Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
Bill Clinton
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As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.
Caroline Ghosn
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God calls women to run—to trust him and invest ourselves in the race he has marked out—to participate, contribute and fight for what is right.
Carolyn Custis James
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A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.
George Hamilton
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The university doesn’t free women but completes their repression.
Elena Ferrante
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Women look really sexy doing action on-screen, and it is my favorite genre.
Esha Gupta
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Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.
Hillary Clinton
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I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell you that I am surrounded by very strong women and that I really appreciate that, but I'd rather not label myself.
Penelope Cruz
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Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.
Cate Blanchett
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Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'
Jimmy Smits