Women Quotes
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I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
Erma Bombeck
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Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.
Evan Esar
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I do feel I have a responsibility to empower women and to inspire them.
Kylie Bunbury
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Beginnings were not suitable, she felt, after a certain age, especially not for women. Mothers of the married, such as herself and Mrs. Cumfrit, should be concerned rather with endings than beginnings.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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No buts," he said, "because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn't get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did.
Nicholas Sparks
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Women are never at ease when they have ideas.
Edmund Gwenn
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When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.
Augusta Stowe-Gullen
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It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
Melissa Bank
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I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Hillary Clinton
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I think women are excellent social critics.
Laurie Anderson
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Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.
Judith Light
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As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.
Brigid Schulte
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When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
Nan Goldin
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When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
Billie Jean King
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There were still children in the world, and while there were children, men and women would not abandon the struggle to make safe homes to put them in, and while they so struggled there was hope.
Elizabeth Goudge
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We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.
Hillary Clinton
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I believe one should be a woman at home.
Bette Davis
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Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
George Eliot
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It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.
Winona LaDuke
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We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
Elizabeth Lesser
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And the three women, after crying, felt united in a love.
Christina Stead
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For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.
Haruki Murakami