Women Quotes
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For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.
Kristen Wiig
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The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.
Barbara Bergmann
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They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.
Joan Van Ark
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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
Elizabeth Moon
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Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.
Elizabeth Esty
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
Erica Jong
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For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.
Adele Logan Alexander
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As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.
Amy Klobuchar
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If the past is an indication, when women are given a job to do in Congress, they get it done.
Amy Klobuchar
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You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.
Anand Mahindra
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All my friends are girls. I just prefer the company of women.
Louise Nurding
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I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.
Elisabeth Shue
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I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look back with nostalgia or yearn for what I've lost. Because it was never all that.
Lisa Jewell
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Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
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We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women, but this is not the point.
Arancha Gonzalez
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The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.
Jenny Shipley
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Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
Carre Otis
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With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.
Edward Jesse
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With '2 Dope Queens,' we get the opportunity to love and enjoy each other and have fun being best friends and being women of color and talking about our personal experience. Also, we give an opportunity to elevate voices for many different people that otherwise would not get such a large platform.
Jessica Williams
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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
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Women themselves are an emerging market.
Peggy Johnson
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There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
Lena Dunham
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Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
George Eliot