Women Quotations

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

My 94-year-old grandmother has always been so inspiring to me. She is kind, smart, brave, and independent. After graduating number one in her medical school class at a time when it was extremely rare for women to attend medical school, she worked with the World Health Organization in North Africa to eradicate tuberculosis.

Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women.

When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.

For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.

Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.

I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris. When I was 21, women were an enigma; they were this code that had to be cracked. They were 'The Other.' I have often thought writing this stuff into stand-up and shows would be an exorcism, but it hasn't been; it makes no difference.

I think women love a passionate love story.

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.

Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!

I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods of innocent children. As a young woman, I stand behind the women around the globe who are leading the charge against polio and working relentlessly to achieve a polio-free world.

Women, we are so strong! It took me so long to figure that out, but I realized just how strong a woman is.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.

I absolutely think women's perspectives should be considered in making economic decisions.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

It's ironic, really. Guys should be excited that I got Kristen Bell. If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it's like, 'Well, of course he did.' With me, it should be, 'Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I'll get me a Kristen Bell.' But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with.

My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

I remember going with my parents to weddings where the women would arrive covered in black veils, but underneath, they'd be wearing the most exquisite brightly colored Dolce & Gabbana suits. They were like peacocks showing off their tails.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.

Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me.

Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn't play neurotic women?

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They've picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I've done the same for them.

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

It's great to see there's a push behind women's MMA because everyone who's involved in women's MMA is very passionate about it.

My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.

Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.