Women Quotes

• And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Joys

• The accumulation of experience gives you a debt in terms of compassion. I am very fortunate, and I feel dedicated to giving back to other women. Wherever I am now, I make sure I visit a women's shelter. But I don't want to do it in a frivolous way.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Compassion
  • Fortunate
  • Visit

• There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

  

  Raquel Welch
  • Women
  • Actresses

• Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Women
  • Permission
  • Feel Like

• I believe one should be a woman at home.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Women
  • Home
  • I Believe

• Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Different
  • Women
  • Immature

• At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Jobs
  • Plenty
  • BBC

• The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men

  

  Caroline Criado-Perez
  • Women
  • Problem

• Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Women
  • Coffee
  • Civilized

• We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Hands
  • My Heart
  • God Wants

• Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Money
  • Power
  • Ruin

• The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Power
  • President
  • Liberation

• 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
  • Women
  • Sleep
  • Feminism

• The taste forever refines in the study of women.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Women
  • Forever
  • Study

• It’s not just about beauty standards. It also really translates to socioeconomic status for women in many developing countries across the world

  

  Nina Davuluri
  • Women
  • Standards
  • Developing

• Americans like fat books and thin women.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Women
  • Book

• Because of Amelia Earhart, we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Generation
  • World War II
  • Airplanes

• There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Mother
  • Purpose

• I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Women
  • Legs
  • I Wonder

• Women of the world crave excitement.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Women
  • Excitement

• I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

  

  Esther Williams
  • Women
  • Movie Star

• If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway. How much of the trouble that has occurred already in Palestine may be attributed to this cause it is impossible to know.

  

  Nesta Helen Webster
  • Trouble
  • Disability
  • Palestine

• All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Women
  • Understood

• The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Destroys

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