Woman Quotes
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
Eddie Izzard
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In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
Lena Horne
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Marg Helgenberger and I were waitresses in the same restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I'm happy to say that that restaurant has since been torn down. [...] We both had an audition for ABC soaps - different soaps, but we auditioned at the same time, and she got the part and went off to New York. Three years later, I went to L.A. So she was kind of an inspiration to me. And it makes sense that we will both be in Wonder Woman together, because we ARE Wonder Women.
Virginia Madsen
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She was a counselor, a therapist, a beautiful woman. He was nothing. That’s what he was.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Being a woman in a male-dominated industry is difficult at times. I've had people offer to help me, but it's hard to know who to trust.
Saweetie
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I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.
George Michael
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
Olivia Wilde
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What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
Adam Ferrara
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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
Gail Sheehy
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If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
Oprah Winfrey
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
Ida Tarbell
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When you give your word to a woman, you sign a life time contract. You cannot lie to her any more.
Adriano Celentano
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I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won't get heard.
Rachel Bloom
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
Olga Korbut
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Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!
Sara Gruen
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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
Jane Austen
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They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman and I was not taking that. As a proud black trans woman, I was not going to allow the system to delegitimize, hyper-sexualize and take my identity away from me.
CeCe McDonald
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The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.
Raf Simons
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
Edgardo Osorio
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
Gabrielle Union
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Salman Rushdie
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac
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What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
Rachel Cusk