I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should… I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn’t spend it – especially if she doesn’t spend it.
I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
I don’t know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it’s more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they’re a woman and people don’t want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
You can’t be a feminist in the United States and stand up for the rights of the American woman and then say that you don’t want to stand up for the rights of Palestinian women in Palestine. It’s all connected.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that’s what life really is – there’s no concrete path for you to take. It’s always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don’t know.
Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she’s not a beautiful woman and she’s getting older. But you’re saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she’s talking about.
A woman is like an actress: she’s always onstage.
It matters more what’s in a woman’s face than what’s on it.
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Don’t tell me about tolerance. Don’t tell me about acceptance. Look at me as the woman that I am and respect that.
I am emotional, honest, and sensitive and a great human being because of my dad. Tough and independent woman because of my mom.
Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it’s wonderful that she didn’t cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
But I don’t see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.
I’m trying as hard as I can to keep pushing the boundaries of what a woman is capable of doing. And it turns out there’s a lot we can do. There’s a lot we can speak about.
My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox, so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.
If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I’m having a love affair with her. Of course that’s rubbish. I’m not a playboy!
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.
‘Charm’ – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm.
To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn’t the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it’s a learning disability… but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, hot or cold, big or little, inside or outside, wet or dry, good or bad, boy or girl, man or woman.
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
I learned a woman is never an old woman.
I think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels.
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.
Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she’s seen tougher.
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.
Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it’s what she fights for that is important. It’s her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don’t embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.
I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
I think there’s something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what’s always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I’ve told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
There’s nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it’s a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
