Women Quotes
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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.
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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.
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In 'UnREAL', for me, just being so openly feminist, just being so overtly, like, 'This show is about women who are not necessarily likable, doing a job that is despicable, and we are not going to be afraid of that.'
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I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.
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Power is nothing without a rock solid core. Pilates is the key to activating it...guys don't be fooled just 'cause women do it. It's no joke. Try it and you'll find out real quick.
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I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.
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Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
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When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.
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On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many women as possible, but particularly on a show that is about women and about progressive issues like that.
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Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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I want to inspire other young women of color and empower them. I want them to know that they can do and be anything they dream of.
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I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.
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Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.
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I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.
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I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.
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Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's.
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Feminism is the belief that women should have equal social, economic and political rights. We don’t have these yet, and so that is the point of feminism.
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My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.
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Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through a similar situation. That way I'm not picking on my wife.
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I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.
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I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.
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I grew up in Senegal, where more than 50 percent of the women bleach their skin, and skin bleaching is a huge deal. I grew up seeing my cousins and my aunts using it.
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It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.
