Women Quotes
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Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
William Shakespeare -
Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.
Bram Stoker
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My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.
Vandana Shiva -
There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.
Charles Dickens -
I do think there's a preoccupation that women understandably have with this idea of the roles we're meant to play and whether or not those roles serve us or ultimately kind of imprison us.
Karyn Kusama -
I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
Chuck Close -
I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.
Kathleen Turner -
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.
E. O. Wilson
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One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
Allison Janney -
I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.
Matt Haig -
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
Neil MacGregor -
Having been in some roles that really resonated with women, I became hyper-aware of how women are represented in Hollywood.
Geena Davis -
What women need are not benefits and advantages but a merit-based selection process that will allow them to automatically benefit from various opportunities.
Chanda Kochhar -
My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.
Hillary Clinton -
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
Jimmy Carter -
Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.
Mary Pilon -
The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.
Amina Mama -
I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls.
Anna Kendrick -
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.
Ava DuVernay -
If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men.
Arundhati Bhattacharya -
Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.
Uta Ranke-Heinemann -
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
Auguste Renoir