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.
