Best 5610 quotes in «women quotes» category

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

I believe every single one of us has a choice in life and that we can all choose to live out whatever our exceptional minds dream up.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I believe that everyone deserves love, and sometimes looking outside your own culture is a good way to find it.

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.

I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

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

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

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

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