Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

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 have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

[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.

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

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

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.

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 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'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 us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

Life's too short to bullshit.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.