Women Quotes
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Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved.
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If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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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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Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.
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To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.
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I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
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I'm passionate about women's issues, and there are no outlets for that on TV, so I wanted to create one.
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Women are surprised to see me on the street - like they're seeing a ghost. There's a lot of crying involved.
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I just want to see more women in film and behind the camera. I'm tired of seeing movies from one perspective.
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The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.
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Our country is eternally grateful for the sacrifices our men and women in uniform make each day.
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Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.
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So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize. She writes an article which becomes an article she writes in different ways over and over and over again: Women need to organize. They need to create their own bosses. They need to have support networks and gangs so that they are a force.
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Men are much more likely to make sure the boss knows they were in the office until midnight. But women tend to avoid seeking that kind of acknowledgement for their work. They just assume that the boss knows - but the boss usually doesn't. I experienced that firsthand.
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My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
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I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?
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Authorities in Rabat believe that if we create a Moroccan character, even in a work of fiction, we are responsible for the image of Moroccan women.
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In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I must do something completely different. Women needed something for daytime that was wearable.
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.
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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.
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I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.
