Women Quotes
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Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
Fran Lebowitz
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
Vidal Sassoon
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
Gail Collins
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I would like to make sure, first of all, that our women in the informal sector - I mean, these are the farmers and the traders; many of them are not educated, many of them lacking literacy - be able to give them better working conditions. And we've done a lot to be able to achieve that.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
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All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.
Megan Fox
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
Bette Midler
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You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
Padmasree Warrior
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Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
Alfred Einstein
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Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
Patricia Riggen
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I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.
Emma Stone
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
Olivia Colman
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I married beneath me, all women do.
Nancy Astor
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
Halima Aden
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As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
Dee Dee Myers
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
Sigmund Freud
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Frances McDormand
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
Pat Boone
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
Garry Shandling
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
Salman Rushdie
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
Rachel Shelley
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We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.
Ibrahim Hooper
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
Laura Chinchilla