Women Quotes
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You've got the two titans. Streisand. Oprah. Both strong black women.
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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.
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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a woman's eyes can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only women can hear the prayer.
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Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
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I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
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We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.
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What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.
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I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
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Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
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Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.
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“He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.”
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I'm drawn to female stories, of which there aren't that many, and particularly to stories now about older women. The things they have to confront and override is really fascinating. That's a whole untold part of our world.
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When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.
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I need and want to see capable women. I don't like to see them weep all the time.
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The beautiful, architectonically constructed, severely formed bodies of these women his girlfriend in Berlin and life companion, Erna with her sister Gerda replaced the soft Saxon physique.
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Most of my close friends, growing up, were women - and even after I got married, I still maintained a lot of those friendships. But as they get married, and as I get older, I'm making a lot of the transition to the husbands.
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An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
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The funniest women I've known are Southern. It is such a vital way to get what you want. Charm and grace and a sense of humor will take you a long way.
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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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I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I am. Those experiences are part of me. And it is part of our American journey that we have moved through so much of what used to hold people back because of gender, because of race.
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He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.
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We consummate life and lose it because in some long-ago time someone, in the desire to unload his cock inside us, was nice, chose us among women. We take for some sort of kindness addressed to us alone the banal desire for sex. We love his desire to fuck, we are so dazzled by it we think it’s the desire to fuck only us, us alone. Oh yes, he who is so special and who has recognized us as special. We give it a name, that desire of the cock, we personalize it, we call it my love.
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One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.
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Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
