Women Quotes

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

Susan Faludi
Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.

Elise Hu
- Army
- Building
- Victims

There’s a lot of pressure on women in music. Even if we’ve done the most incredible things, there’s always that smidge of insecurity. It’s like trying to train yourself to groom your ego a bit and tell yourself that you are enough.

Alisa Xayalith
- Music
- Women
- Pressure
My goal is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.

Jessica Chastain
- Good
- Important
- Girl
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- Women
- Husband
- Clever
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
Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's.

Erwin Chargaff
You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her.

Elena Ferrante
- Hands
- Protect
- Hide