Quotes about women
women gossip pieces
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. Robert A. Heinlein
women years mind
In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
women mean equality
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
women abortion privacy
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
women clothes abduction
Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction. Sacha Guitry
women taken two
There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety. Ruth Rendell
women cocoons rabbit-holes
The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation. Susan Faludi
women justice feminism
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
women quitting knows
I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it. Susan Butcher
women hands voice
Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand. Stephen Potter
women blood religion
Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones. Tillie Olsen
women handsome week
I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week. Tilda Swinton
women moving home
Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company. Toni Morrison
women thinking creative
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
women mean home
What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do. Tina Fey
women equality history
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. Sonia Sotomayor
women believe listening
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening. Thomas Hardy
women sleep loss
No woman is worth the loss of a night's sleep. Thomas Beecham
women composer has-beens
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
women forgiving never-forget
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
women eyebrows way
The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
women
Women have every right; they just have to excercise them. Victoria Woodhull
women government
Women have no government.
women common citizenship
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
women endeavor
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
women men unfortunate
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man. Victor Hugo
women school hands
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.
women yield magnanimity
One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
women bravery curiosity
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
women average moral
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked. Stephen Leacock
women empowerment way
I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways. Stephanie Moore
women hate compassion
On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed... Starhawk
women thinking tricks
The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you. Soren Kierkegaard