Famous Quotes
- Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
- Clare Boothe Luce on Women
- Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
- Gloria Steinem on Women
- Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.
- Michael Kors on Women
- Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
- Louis Farrakhan on Women
- Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Women
- Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
- Kathleen Turner on Women
- Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
- Joseph Conrad on Women
- Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
- Fran Lebowitz on Women
- Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
- Robert Frost on Women
- Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
- Oscar Wilde on Women
- Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
- Barbara Bush on Women
- Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).
- Julie Burchill on Women
- Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
- Marilyn Monroe on Women
- Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
- Audre Lorde on Women
- Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
- Tyra Banks on Women
- Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
- Tyra Banks on Women
- Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- Audre Lorde on Women
- Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.
- Larry Craig on Women
- Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Women
- Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.
- Samuel Butler on Women
- But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
- Madeleine Albright on Women
- But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
- Audre Lorde on Women
- But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
- W. E. B. Du Bois on Women
- But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
- Jose Marti on Women
- But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Women
- Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.
- Julie Burchill on Women
- Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
- Camille Paglia on Women
- Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
- E. M. Forster on Women
- Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
- Andrea Dworkin on Women
- Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
- Gloria Steinem on Women
- Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
- Mary Wollstonecraft on Women
- Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
- Alice Walker on Women
- Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
- George Bernard Shaw on Women
- CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
- Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Women
- Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
- Warren Farrell on Women
- Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
- Wentworth Miller on Women
- Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
- Ambrose Bierce on Women
- Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
- Brian Tracy on Women
- Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky on Women
- Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Women
- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Franklin P. Adams on Women
- Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
- Grace Kelly on Women
- Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
- Mike Honda on Women
- Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
- Larry David on Women
- Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
- Augustus Y. Napier on Women
- Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
- Catherine Deneuve on Women
- Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
- Iris Murdoch on Women
- Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
- Camille Paglia on Women
- Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
- Havelock Ellis on Women
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