Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? . . . Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking hassock walking down the street.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

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

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

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

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

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

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'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.

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 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 religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

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.

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

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

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.

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