Women Quotes: Celebrating the Strength, Resilience, and Empowerment of Women
Embracing Womanhood: Quotes that Inspire and Empower
Women have played a significant role in shaping the world we live in, from breaking barriers to advocating for equality and justice. In this collection of women quotes, we celebrate the strength, resilience, and empowerment of women from all walks of life. These quotes capture the essence of womanhood, offering inspiration, encouragement, and a reminder of the remarkable contributions women have made and continue to make in various fields.
Embracing Your Power: Quotes to Inspire Women
Allow these women quotes to resonate with you as you embrace your power and navigate the journey of womanhood. Draw strength from the words of trailblazers, activists, artists, and visionaries who have paved the way for future generations. Reflect on their wisdom, stand tall in your unique experiences, and find inspiration in the stories of women who have overcome challenges and shattered glass ceilings.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.
A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.
‘Wonder Woman’ is much more than a cartoon character. She’s fighting for truth and justice and the secret self that exists in all women and girls. There’s a moral fiber and a goodness about her that all women have.
In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell.
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
What does it say about a country that has to force its women into combat?
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart – and here’s why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary – to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.
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.
In my family, growing up, the women were always the ones who were powerful, and they exuded this charisma of empowerment that I hold onto and always remember. I had some difficult times, but these strong women were always a constant.
I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Women won’t let me stay single and I won’t let me stay married.
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
I know my name will always be linked with women.
Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
I’m trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don’t believe in patronizing either sex.
Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.
I have crushes on women all the time. I don’t have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
The use of sanitary pads and the dos and don’ts should be discussed with openness so as to make a hygienic and healthy life for the women.
The more you win, the brand of women’s cricket will go higher.
I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
I dress for women and I undress for men.
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It’s the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they’d never stop slapping us.
Women are like elephants. I like to look at ’em, but I wouldn’t want to own one.
The women’s movement hasn’t changed my sex life. It wouldn’t dare.
Women don’t realize how powerful they are.
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.
I don’t know if it’s animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Black men don’t like to be called ‘boys,’ but women accept being called ‘girls.’
I made ‘LS4TS2’ for women, my Day 1’s, the trenches, and all those that doubted me.
I know lots of women who have slim legs but refuse to wear skirts because of unsightly varicose or spider veins. Though heredity plays a role, your genes don’t have to doom you to a life of long pants.
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it’s minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.
I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.
America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
Absolutely, I don’t believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history.’
Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they’re not with a partner then it doesn’t really count. They’re still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don’t discuss that, because it’s too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.
Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
I’m so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It’s so bizarre to me… I do have those qualities, and I just don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.
I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age; I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on that.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‘No.’
There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother’s home.
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it’s a struggle, a competition of careers. There’s jealousy.
Success doesn’t come overnight, especially for women.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn’t learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don’t think they feel pressure to look good all the time.
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
You’ve gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can’t forget to take care of ourselves.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
So many women just don’t know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
I had it all – money, women, fame, cars, yachts, everything a man could want – but it didn’t give my life meaning.
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it’s associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women – from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement – particularly men, I don’t know why, maybe it’s the testosterone – I think it’s narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe – things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it’s actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Women have a predestination to suffering.
I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.
Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
I like my whisky old and my women young.
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I’ve always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
I like a women who’s got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that’s fine.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don’t have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
I had a stunt double for ‘The Bronze.’ She’s literally the most amazing human being I’ve ever seen. She’s NCAA women’s gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.
The same way that racism is a white person’s problem, violence against women is a men’s problem.
People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.
I like women. I love women.
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.
Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.
On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn’t we be taking the same risks in space?
Women hold up half the sky.
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.
So often public service comes with sacrifice. A sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make each day.
Sex hasn’t been the same since women started enjoying it.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
For a long time, men weren’t respecting women. They weren’t understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can’t live with them, or without them.
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.
Because women are more than the people who raise our children, they are fantastic leaders in their own rights in our community, and we want to give them the same safe environment, as we would expect.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
They say women and music should never be dated.
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
If you don’t love yourself, you can’t love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.
I don’t think I’m a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
I didn’t fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
All issues are women’s issues – and there are several that are just women’s business.
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting.
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Women tend to judge other women harshly. We should be kinder to each other, accept that we’re all different and can make different choices. Not go for some kind of stereotypical idea that we’re perfect. Frankly, I’m not perfect.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn’t the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.
Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it’s a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it’s a risk. If you discuss religion, it’s a risk. But you can’t really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I’m committed to that society… and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women’s rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.
Powerful women intimidate men. If she’s a really well-known woman, she has a career, she’s famous – in that case, men are really afraid.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
Women pay attention to how men drive because it’s a good indicator of what kind of character you have. They want someone who’s going to be intelligent and cautious and assertive and confident when you need to be, but not overly aggressive and reckless, and also not timid and overly paranoid.
Women don’t go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
It’s incredibly unfair. You don’t see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
You have to be very careful with women friends.
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
We believe women have rights in Islam that they’ve yet to obtain.
I didn’t marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too – my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Cricket is not gender biased. It isn’t that men’s cricket is different and women’s a different one.
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
I seem to be stuck in the ’60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women’s fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
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.
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
If it wasn’t for women, I wouldn’t be here. I’m a mamma’s boy at heart. I love my mom. I have the deepest, utmost respect for women.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
It’s important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can’t be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I’d like to see that change by walking the walk.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree.
Women are the real reason we get up every day. I’m talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I’m hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.
Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational speeches and by providing independent income for women who otherwise would have to be maids and sharecroppers.
When women work together, it’s a bond unlike any other.
I feel women with long hair have a completely different charm – they can attract more attention and if I may say so, they look so Indian!
Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.
In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.
If we’re discussing women’s empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
Men and women have roles – their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Nigeria’s unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy – which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.
Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.
I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realise you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Numbers don’t lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don’t lie.
The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women’s education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.
When I hear the words ‘Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,’ I think, ‘What. A. Dream.’ There are no negative connotations to it.
I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‘Let me order.’ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‘Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.’ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women’s rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they’re pretty much the same beast.
The more people we can attract to science and technology – men, women, everybody – the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can’t have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
My mother made me truly appreciate women.
I’m very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don’t even like the word ‘feminism’ because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I’m not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don’t want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts.
You know, there’s nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It’s kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.
The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They’d never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can’t be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
Not only is women’s work never done, the definition keeps changing.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.
I hate it that there are so many beautiful women in the world, and I can’t have all of them for myself.
Women have this obsession with shoes.
Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.
Everyone has to learn how to live in an environment that has not made it easy for women to claim their place, so I think it’s all women’s responsibility to step forward.
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
Yes, it’s a man’s world, but that’s all right because they’re making a total mess of it. We’re chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it’s a difficult task, but it’s not.
I liked women as a shape to dress.
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it’s a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood – the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.
My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.
I always play women I would date.
I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.
My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I’m very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I’ve been dancing since I was a little kid.
I can’t date women my own age any more – I hate going to cemeteries.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, ‘Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?’ And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.
I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn’t very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.
It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
The Iowa Women’s Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the first place.
Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
It’s really important that young women be reminded that their involvement matters and that their voice is heard. Even if it feels like it’s small, it really can make an impact.
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
I guess I just don’t have a talent for it, some women just aren’t the marrying kind – or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I’m one of them.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Relationships are made of talk – and talk is for girls and women.
If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
I’m surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don’t understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
All together now: Women don’t cause sexual harassment, harassers do.
On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
I’m thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the ’60s.
When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, ‘Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.’ I was so angry. I couldn’t understand why it didn’t say men as well.
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.
It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.
Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste.
I can hear the roar of women’s silence.
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
If I had to name one thing that differentiates me from the other women, it’s that I get free stuff at restaurants or get discounts.
Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers’ grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation’s character.
With trans people, I just think you can’t help the way you are born, though. You know, it’s DNA, it’s genetics. I’m just glad people can do things about their own happiness. I think this thought process that they’re trying to wipe out women is a bit ridiculous – it’s a minority of people.
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
Pro-life feminists believe in women and their ability. Pro-choice feminists only see women as weak and something to be exploited.
A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin – and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.
Girls of color and young women need to be seen, heard, and valued. Schools can help make this happen by including our stories in the curriculum.
People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
Strong women only marry weak men.
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
In real life, too, women love to be that girl who tames the bad boy.
The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don’t have with anybody else, but that’s not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
My complexion, we too gutter: light-skinned women are more sensitive.
We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don’t easily express our heartache or show our wounds.
I opened Leith’s in Notting Hill in 1969 and it eventually worked its way into being awarded a Michelin star. At the time, there were a few women running small bistros – but I was the first woman to have a ‘serious,’ expensive restaurant.
I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
I’m always interested in relationships between women. I’m always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it’s a family relationship or it’s a friend relationship. That’s such uncharted territory in cinema.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
I think French women tend to keep it simple. I’d say try the less-is-more approach, which is not always easy to get right.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
I’m very open and honest, and I feel like it’s important for women to hear that we’re not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would’ve been better off if I’d left myself alone.
A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’; They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’
The term ‘alpha female’ originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.
When anything goes, it’s women who lose.
As women, we have super powers. We are sisters. We are healers. We are mothers. We are goddess warriors.
It can’t be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can.
You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
Women today have so many opportunities in fields like engineering. The work is new and engineers are making things work, making the impossible possible. I want girls to know about the opportunities out there.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
I’m supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I’ve flunked more often than not. I’m very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don’t understand them.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed one tradition. That changed tradition has changed a village. That one village has changed a country. That new reality means new opportunities for themselves and their daughters.
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. It’s the same way with women… or at least the ones I want to be with.
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
‘Women’s’ war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
Safety and security of women and children will determine the well-being and strength of our nations.
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.
In conclusion, women have an extraordinary capacity to inspire, create change, and make a lasting impact on the world. These women quotes serve as a reminder of the strength, resilience, and empowerment that define womanhood. May they inspire you to embrace your power, follow your passions, and stand up for equality and justice. Remember, as a woman, you have the ability to shape your own destiny and create a better future for yourself and generations to come.
