Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in... Good people make you look good.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.

I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed.

I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits.... A woman's involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife can make it easier to work outside the home. Being a mother can facilitate the activities and foster the skills of the efficient wife or of the effective worker. And employment outside the home can contribute in substantial, practical ways to how one works within the home, as a spouse and as a parent.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

Just because times change and alot of people think that dating multiple people is the thing these days, it just isn't a solid foundation at all in matters of the heart. I still believe in marriages that have a physically powerful foundation.

Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.

Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

Just put on your makeup and get out there and do it.

Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.