Women Quotes
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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Marguerite Young
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Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
Taslima Nasrin
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I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.
David Harewood
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Because men complained less, we made the false assumption that the complaints women experienced were only women’s complaints and, therefore, only women’s problems. Which created the rationale for women’s problems to be solved – or at least addressed – by public policy.
Warren Farrell
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Congresswomen are congresswomen - you are, sorry. And for women who want to be congressmen, there's a screw loose in their head. I'm proud of being a woman. I think 'congresswoman' is the appropriate term, and 'Madame chair' is just fine with me.
Linda Sanchez
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
Gail Collins
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And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Phyllis Schlafly
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Our country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any America-because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race.
Chesty Puller
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I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.
Chelsea Cain
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
Abigail Disney
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
AJ McLean
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I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.
Lianne La Havas
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If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
Lee Kuan Yew
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I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.
Harry Carey, Jr.
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Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.
Bethenny Frankel
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
Karen Morley
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Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
Charlotte Lamb
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The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
Kathryn Bigelow
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I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
J. Paul Getty
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The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"
Andrew Solomon
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
Pam Grier
