Women Quotes
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Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.
Hillary Clinton
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As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.
Ban Ki-moon
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I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
Susan Estrich
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This is my first FIFA Women's World Cup . For me, to see how I have reacted to this tournament...I'm totally in.
Alexi Lalas
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In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.
John Lithgow
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Women are women and can't help themselves.
William John Locke
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Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.
Amy Richards
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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.
Amanda de Cadenet
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We remember when women were spoken of differently. I don't mean that we didn't speak of women sexually - that happened. It was never this crude: there wasn't the connotations, the violence. I think there's got to be a relationship between the coarsening of the culture, of which pornography was a piece of the puzzle.
George Pelecanos
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Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.
Charles Buxton
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Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.
Jeanine Pirro
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I come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful.
Pramila Jayapal
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As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.
Sarah Gadon
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It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.
Ana Castillo
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Through adopting radical extremism, some young men who previously felt humiliated and emasculated by their peers can now feel powerful and intimidating - and gain status, attention from young women, and the comradeship and solidarity of other young men like themselves.
Deeyah Khan
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When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on...Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?
Alpana Singh
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You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.
Kevin Plank
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Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.
Caroline Ghosn
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Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.
Chuck Close
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I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.
Pam Grier
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I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.
Elizabeth Marvel
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
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Difficult folk, these women!
Mikhail Bulgakov
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I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.
Erin Davie