Women Quotes

"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

"For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood."

"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."

"I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with."

"We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be."

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

"Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass."

"For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women."

"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."

"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

"I think for women especially, you need to have a plan. I need to have some other ways to generate income, so I don't have to stretch my face or lift the top of my head with surgery or something."

"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside."

"A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons."

"Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy."

"Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh."

"I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them."

"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that."

"In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine."

"I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood."

"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."

"I always open doors for women. It's just good manners."

"All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security."

"My mother made me truly appreciate women."

"No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you."

"I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them."

"When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras."

"Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort."

"Liberal-socialist women generalize about women as if they are some sort of monolithic voting block of disenfranchised, victimized citizens."

"When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt."

"Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again."

"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands."

"The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to battle such injustices wherever these might occur."

"Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."

"I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want."

"Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps."

"I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that."

"I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?"

"When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events."

"No one wants to see curvy women."

"Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it's a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others."

"Women should be obscene and not heard."

"I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean."

"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."

"Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago."

"I think older women still have a full life."

"Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others."

"Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent."

"The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad."