Women Quotes
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Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going to see value in what they do. This is the attitude that motivates them to be and to do their best. It's a drive that comes from within people.
William Walton
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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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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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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.
Colin Farrell
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Defining virginity means directly affecting the lives of nearly all women, and many men as well. Despite what some people appear to think, defining virginity is not merely a philosophical exercise. It is an exercise in controlling how people behave, feel, and think, and in some cases, whether they live or die.
Hanne Blank
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Conquering enemy cities was far less complicated than the women in his life, or the children they bore for him.
Conn Iggulden
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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.
Jo Brand
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I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out.
Edith Grossman
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It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
Aimee Mullins
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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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I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.
James Joyce
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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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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Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.' (Women in Love)
D. H. Lawrence
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You know when women look their best? When they're in love.
Marilyn Minter
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The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.
Amelia Bloomer
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The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.
Jill Lepore
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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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No [I'm not a feminist] because I love men, and I think the idea of 'raise women to power, take the men away from the power' is never going to work out because you need balance. With myself, I'm very in touch with my masculine side. And I'm 50 percent feminine and 50 percent masculine, same as I think a lot of us are. And I think that is important to note. And also I think that if men went down and women rose to power, that wouldn't work either. We have to have a fine balance.
Shailene Woodley
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Women speak in the superlative.
Emile Souvestre
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The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.
Christina Aguilera
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Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.
Uta Ranke-Heinemann
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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.
Madeleine Albright
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Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South’s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man’s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.
Allison Glock