Woman Quotes
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
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A woman who is loved always has success.
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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
