Women Quotes
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
Sue Townsend
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Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.
Hillary Clinton
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Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.
Susan Estrich
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There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.
Kathleen Turner
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Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
Yann Martel
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Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a great deal; but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.
Norm MacDonald
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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.
Marianne Elliott
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Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.
Allegra Goodman
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Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" - timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement - are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.
Elizabeth Gould Davis
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Give fools the first and women the last word.
George Horace Lorimer
