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Quotes About Challenges

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
~ Ellen Goodman
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
~ Erica Jong
I think a lot of women have back problems.
~ Erin Heatherton
In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.
~ Esra Saydam
What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
~ Euripides
I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.
~ Eve Hewson
I've got three women in my life: my mama, ex baby mama and my new baby mama.
~ Felipe Esparza
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.
~ Francis Ray
The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
~ Francois Pinault
The Jewish women like Bethany Mandel fare the worst, because they are getting both antisemitic stuff and anti-woman stuff.
~ Gene Weingarten
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Women are well on the road to equality but we haven't arrived yet.
~ Gloria Feldt
Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.
~ Gloria Feldt
There are limits put on women, but why should there be?
~ Gwen Stefani
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
Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.
~ Helen Hunt
I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... we're in crisis on a continuous basis...or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know.
~ Helen Slater
Tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. This is your campaign.
~ Hillary Clinton
Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.
~ Hollis Stacy
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?
~ Honore de Balzac
It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.
~ Hope Solo
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
~ Horace Greeley
Women put guys through tests all the time.
~ J. B. Smoove
Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
~ J. K. Rowling