Women Quotes
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My hope as an actress is knowing that I'm someone who is more privileged - I'm biracial and lighter-skinned - and I hope it can open up the door for more women of color, especially darker-skinned black women. I hope everyone hops on the bandwagon and decides to start putting women of color in movies that aren't just about race.
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I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.
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...women, brave as stars at dawn.
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Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.
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I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.
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Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.
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Defining virginity means directly affecting the lives of nearly all women, and many men as well. Despite what some people appear to think, defining virginity is not merely a philosophical exercise. It is an exercise in controlling how people behave, feel, and think, and in some cases, whether they live or die.
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In most cultures, men represent tradition and women represent change and future. Women, because of their ability to give birth, are more connected to future. Men tend to keep the status quo.
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I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
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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.
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Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.
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It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.
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Everyone in the dating business wants to know what women want - it's the billion-dollar question. But it's simple: put one in charge, and you find out.
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... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.
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Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
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I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.
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There is nothing wrong with Radha Ravi calling women to his office. There's nothing wrong if a man calls women to his office. There is something wrong if a man calls men to his office.
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I personally am very active with the women's prison association, and I designed a locket, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to the women's prison association.
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There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.
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The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for.
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Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.
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Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.
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Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.
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Our country is eternally grateful for the sacrifices our men and women in uniform make each day.
