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Quotes About Challenges

So many women around the world in so many different career paths and places are expected to be perfect and I know that it sounds cliché, but none of us are.
~ Gigi Hadid
Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
~ Princess Diana
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
~ P.G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
~ Ellen Swallow Richards
Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
~ Missy Elliot
We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
~ Ian Mckellen
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.
~ Stormie Omartian
They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.
~ William Westmoreland
White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.
~ William Kristol
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.
~ Keir Hardie
I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.
~ Kim Cattrall
I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.
~ Ginger Rogers
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
~ Wanda Sykes
We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women.
~ John Henrik Clarke
I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
~ Norman Rockwell
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
~ Betty Friedan
I'm sick of carrying guns and beating up women.
~ James Cagney
Let's just put it this way: if you think there's a thing – anything – women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.
~ Kameron Hurley
People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.
~ Jenny Eclair
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.
~ Naomi Wolf
Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.
~ Jane Harman