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Woman Quotes

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"You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on."
Aisha Tyler
"You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on."
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
Aristotle
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
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"The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full."
Tarja Halonen
"The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full."
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"I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims."
Francesca Annis
"I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims."
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"I think the key is for women not to set any limits."
Martina Navratilova
"I think the key is for women not to set any limits."
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"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."
Gene Tierney
"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."
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"I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends."
Naomi Watts
"I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends."
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"There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man."
Loretta Lynn
"There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man."
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"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."
Helen Garner
"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."
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"I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight."
Robbie Coltrane
"I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight."
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"The woman that deliberates is lost."
Joseph Addison
"The woman that deliberates is lost."
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"I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part."
Orlando Bloom
"I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part."
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"I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it."
Lesley Visser
"I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it."
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"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."
Marguerite Duras
"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."
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"We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do."
Geena Davis
"We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do."
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"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women."
John Bright
"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women."
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"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
Donald Trump
"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
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"If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"
Mary Wollstonecraft
"If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"
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"Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell."
John Dos Passos
"Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell."
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"We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us."
Patricia Ireland
"We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us."
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"It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan."
Marlo Thomas
"It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan."
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"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
Mary Astell
"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
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"In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work."
Cathy Guisewite
"In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work."
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"Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing."
Matthew Perry
"Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing."
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"With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured."
Dana Plato
"With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured."
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"I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish."
Julie Walters
"I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish."
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"Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it."
Herbie Mann
"Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it."
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"I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring."
Trisha Goddard
"I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring."
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"I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive."
Angelina Jolie
"I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive."
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"The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth."
Robert Casey
"The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth."
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"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences."
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"We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again."
Casper Van Dien
"We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again."
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"Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female."
Susan Griffin
"Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female."
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"As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it."
Susan Faludi
"As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it."
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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."
Mike Tyson
"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."
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"My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias."
William Allen White
"My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias."
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"There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should."
William H. Macy
"There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should."
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"I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors."
Crystal Eastman
"I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors."
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"A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down."
Beverly Sills
"A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down."
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"It is not a woman I want - it is all women."
Henri Barbusse
"It is not a woman I want - it is all women."
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"I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled."
Sheryl Crow
"I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled."
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"Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama."
Sharon Gless
"Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama."
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"On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing."
Julie Harris
"On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing."
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"I am like many of the women I have played onscreen."
Maureen O'Hara
"I am like many of the women I have played onscreen."
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"I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out."
Kelly Lynch
"I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out."
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"I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock."
Birch Bayh
"I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock."
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"I think women are too valuable to be in combat."
Caspar Weinberger
"I think women are too valuable to be in combat."
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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
Geoffrey Beene
"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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"There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force."
Ted Stevens
"There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force."
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"I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there."
Connie Sellecca
"I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there."
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