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Woman Quotes
"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."
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"I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives."
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"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."
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"I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive."
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"You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting."
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"I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?"
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"I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house."
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"Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle."
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"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
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"I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism."
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"I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it."
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"No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing."
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"Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top."
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"Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you."
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"I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."
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"I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better."
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"In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms."
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"I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves."
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"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
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"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us."
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