Women Quotes
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When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.
Alison Pill
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
Warren Farrell
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
Tammy Duckworth
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Without networks like the Black Immigration Network, organizations like Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees would not get the support and resources and amplification that their voices that they need and deserve.
Opal Tometi
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Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
W. Ann Reynolds
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I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.
Sally Kirkland
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We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.
Karrine Steffans
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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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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
Kate Fox
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I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
Elizabeth Hurley
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
Katha Pollitt
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We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
Tadao Ando
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
Barbra Streisand
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
Patricia Schroeder
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Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.
Alice S. Rossi
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My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard
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Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
Katherine Heigl
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Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.
Caitlin Moran
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I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.
Charlotte Lamb
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There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.
Edith Clarke
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
Pam Grier
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My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.
Anthony Santos Aventura