Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.

I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.

I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

If a woman has talent she'll get there. But she has to be willing to fight... to have tremendous determination and be single-minded about it.

If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

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

If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.

If everybody would just stop talking, my job would be a lot easier.

If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.

If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing — anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

I fired the ball for the purpose of giving those dudes to understand upon what ground I stood, believing that those of this class who believe that there are no women capable of taking care of themselves when young, would inform their friends that they might be in danger of their lives if they approached me.

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.

If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.

If there was one thing I’d like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean.