Women Quotes
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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He didn't want her the way he generally wanted women, to feel them under him, to turn them over, turn them again, open them up, break them, step on them, and crush them. He didn't want her in order to have sex and then forget her. He wanted the subtlety of her mind with all its ideas. He wanted her imagination. And he wanted her without ruining her, to make her last.
Elena Ferrante
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My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.
Gene La Rocque
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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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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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Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.
Judith Light
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There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.
Ray Allen
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The perfect woman, you see is a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who uses her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
Thomas Hardy
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It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.
Hillary Clinton
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I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
Marcel Proust
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Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.
Burt Reynolds
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For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.
Haruki Murakami
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When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.
Eva Longoria
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I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.
Kathryn Hughes
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There are so many women out there relying on me to represent them.
Sheryl Swoopes
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A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.
Suzanne Fields
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I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.
Hillary Clinton
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
Albert Camus
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I have to say that today many women celebrate this event and welcome you as a sister, a sister of commitment. I've been receiving messages from all parts of the world to say that this is a special day to them as well.
Noeleen Heyzer
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If you want to ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.
Charlize Theron
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The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and now, have inherent God-given rights. This surely means the church should be at the forefront of advocating for women's rights - not merely political and legal rights, but as in the case of Boaz moving beyond the letter of the law to exceed how any culture regards women.
Carolyn Custis James
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Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.
Christian D. Larson
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I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
Michael Caine