Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gunnar Myrdal

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip

Friedrich Nietzsche

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

Nicola Sturgeon

Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on!

Lawrence Durrell

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Shirley MacLaine

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

James Keller

During a heavy storm at sea a nervous woman passenger on a large liner went to the captain, seeking reassurance. "Captain," she asked tremulously, "are we in great danger?" "Don't worry, madam," he answered, "after all, we in the hands of God." "Oh," she gasped, terror written on her face, "is it as bad as that?"

Barbara Walters

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.

Simone Signoret

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

Marta

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.

Tracy McMillan

I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.

Beth Brooke

Mentorship has been an excuse not to promote women.

I have always enjoyed the company of women.

We don't know much of anything about her. In those days, they didn't write too much about women.

Imelda May

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe not many women are going to film school.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Alison Moyet

Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

Alice Temperley

It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic.

Anita Borg

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Anita Borg

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

Charlotte Lamb

I think printed fiction is what women read.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.