Woman Quotes
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Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.
Kathy Bates
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I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
Cameron Diaz
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
George Eliot
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
Warren Farrell
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
Angela Davis
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
George Bernard Shaw
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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
Oscar Wilde
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
Yoko Ono
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Today, America mourns the loss of a woman who changed our nation.
Dennis Hastert
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If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
Carine Roitfeld
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I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'
Louis Armstrong
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A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
Assata Shakur
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I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up being born the first time.
Alan Alda
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We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President George W. Bush had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.
Scarlett Johansson
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The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.
Jacques Roumain
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No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are...
Brigham Young
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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
Douglas Jerrold
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The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
Christine de Pizan
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Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
Mike Tyson
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It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.
Taylor Swift
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A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All trace of the woman he had seen had vanished, leaving behind a shadow with perfect posture and no conversation. She was right. Everyone would wonder if he flirted with her. He wouldn’t even know how to manage it. One couldn’t flirt with a lump.
Courtney Milan
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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
Amy Vanderbilt