Women Quotes
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Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
Zainab Salbi
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Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
Arthur Golden
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Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.
Simone de Beauvoir
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
D. H. Lawrence
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Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
Eleanor Catton
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Women are weak, easily swayed by passion, driven by desire, lust. He lit a fire in her body, a fire that still burned, even in his absence.
Alice Borchardt
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The #SwimSexy campaign is redefining standards of beauty, and I'm proud to be a part of it. My hope is that this campaign connects with women and girls of all ages, body-types, races, and backgrounds.
Philomena Kwao
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I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.
Conn Iggulden
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I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.
Amber Heard
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The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time. I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's. The role of women in that space is terrifying, and the idea of retribution is a nightmare.
Eliza Griswold
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I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.
Jane Campion
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If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge TV executives to put more on.
Beth Mowins
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I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
William Shakespeare
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As a father of young girls, I want to publicly thank all women who dress and carry themselves like ladies. Your example is a gift.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.
LZ Granderson
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A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
J. G. Holland
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In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.
Andy Dunn
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When Neil Young caught two women incessantly texting at a concert in 2012, he began mock typing on an invisible phone on stage until the women noticed and apparently left the show.
Elizabeth Flock
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I think romantic comedies in general are marketed towards women, and I think men are half the romance, so why not have some that are truly from a male point of view.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.
Beverly Sills
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It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
George William Foote
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Women with education, skills, and independent sources of income are more able to withstand the pressures of the patriarchal family and more able to express their opinions and to move freely within their communities.
Deeyah Khan