Women Quotes

"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion."

"The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers."

"I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that."

"Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs."

"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

"With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever."

"I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out."

"Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women."

"We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other."

"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."

"Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments."

"Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it."

"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."

"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him."

"I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women."

"The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness."

"We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce."

"No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility."

"While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women."

"Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness."

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal."

"If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short."

"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors."

"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."

"Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses."

"It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women."

"I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to."

"I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world."

"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."

"If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?"

"High heels empower women in a way."

"I see a lot of women in these great-looking sneakers, as though they are almost very influenced by sport."

"Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism."

"Birth control is an important part of women's healthcare. It allows women to plan and time their pregnancies, and reduces preterm births and maternal complications."

"To rightly recognize that men and women are equal under the law is perfectly removed from the fact that men and women are distinguishable beings that have been shaped by sex-specific evolutionary challenges. Accordingly, there is no reason to assume or expect that there should be equal representation of the two sexes across all contexts."

"How many thick black women are there singing whatever I'm singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can't really judge someone else for judging me!"

"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."

"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

"In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women."

"I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen."

"What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of."

"I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it."

"Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful."

"Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race."

"When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list."

"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."

"I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it."