top of page
.png){kind=small}
Woman Quotes
"The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."
10
"Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests."
10
"I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence."
10
"The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before."
10
"We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way."
10
"I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess."
10
"But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here."
10
"If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights."
10
"I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better."
10
"Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer."
10
"I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation."
10
"I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it."
10
"When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship."
10
"That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too."
10
"The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community."
10
"Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families."
10
"Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners."
10
"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."
10
"Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll."
10
"I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world."
10
"Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry."
10
"Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism."
10
"We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured."
10
"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl."
10
bottom of page