Women Quotes
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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 was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him.
Lupita Nyong'o
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It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
Catherine Deneuve
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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.
DeMarcus Ware
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When I first joined the DA's office, there weren't that many women. So there was a fair degree of sexism. Everybody kind of got over it when they saw you doing your job.
Marcia Clark
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People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously.
Peter Marino
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I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
Carol Moseley Braun
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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
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I think a lot of men just automatically like to lie, because they feel like their protecting a women's feelings.
Gabrielle Dennis
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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
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I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.
Lauren Bacall
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'Are you a religious man, Joe?'Flitch pulled a face. 'I leaves that sort of thing to women.'
Brian Aldiss
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Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.
John Sandford
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Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.
Andre Leon Talley
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I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.
John C. Mather
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American men are like women.
Bikram Choudhury
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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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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
Thomas Hardy
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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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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.
Bridget Christie
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Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.
Annabelle Wallis
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Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy
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There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
Lena Dunham
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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