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.