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Quotes About Women

Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.
~ Nancy Pelosi
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
~ Elizabeth I
Wherever women are true to their feminine natures and magnify their opportunities for loving service, they are learning to become more like God.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.
~ Starhawk
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
~ Glenn Frey
The voices of the women had the especially sweet and rapturous charm of a gentle stroke passing over the surface of one's skin.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Rather than being liberated by er sexuality, a woman's reliance on sexual attractiveness was just one more way in which she allowed herself to be stereotyped and thus used by men
~ Jeffrey L. Geller
Men tend to be more narcissistic than women, possibly because men are somewhat more competitive and women are more communal, and also because narcissistic behavior would be much more gender-role discrepant for women than for men.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
women tend to underrate their achievements, and have less confidence in their abilities than their line managers have for them.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
Everything Christ taught He taught to women as well as men. Indeed, in the restored light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, a woman including a young woman, occupies a majesty all her own in the divine design of the Creator.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Ginsburg's central premise is that antiabortion laws, like employment discrimination against pregnant women, are based on "stereotypical assumptions" about women as caregivers. Today, pro-choice scholars, advocates, and citizens, including millions of young women, have embraced her emphasis on equality, rather than privacy, as the soundest constitutional foundation for the right to choose.
~ Jeffrey Rosen
Ginsburg believes that the Constitution should be interpreted to root out unconscious biases that subordinate women. But as she recognized decades ago, true equality requires that men and women work together to root out unconscious bias in families and in the workplace.
~ Jeffrey Rosen
Even in the worst case, if Roe is overruled, there's no woman of means who could not get a safe abortion someplace in the United States. There will be a core of states that will never go back to the days of unsafe, back alley abortions. So, poor women have no choice, women of means will be able to decide for themselves.
~ Jeffrey Rosen
So someone got the even brighter idea to put up a curtain between the people who are auditioning and the judges. And that simple device almost overnight led to women showing up in symphony orchestras in numbers.
~ Jeffrey Rosen
According to the telephone poll, a full 40 percent of black women felt that the use of physical force was appropriate in a marriage. And black women especially could not abide Marcia Clark.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
As one justice explained, "The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
God is unveiling women around the world. He always has and continues to work through women and girls, who are half of His church. They are, like men and boys, His image bearers. They are also, like men and boys, gifted, empowered, smart, and anointed.
~ Jen Hatmaker
It's fitting that slave is from a group of words meaning "bonded," which is the same root word used in Titus 2:3 about women "addicted to much wine." In other words, as slaves to our neighbors, our cities, the people of the nations, we are addicted to them. We cannot get enough of them in our homes, in our lives. The more we love them, the more we want to love them. We are addicts for mission, bonded to people for the dream of the gospel in their lives.
~ Jen Hatmaker
My Body is a wide house A commune Of bickering women, hearing their own breathing denying each other. (House of Changes)
~ Jeni Couzyn
Anna imagines that, were she able to visit the caves in which people first dwelled, she would find scrawled drawings that have been omitted from museums and history books. There would be scenes of ritual aggression and submission, painted in blood, caked with dried seminal fluid. They are the very antithesis of fresh, the rites between men and women; age-old and rotten to the core.
~ Jenna Blum
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
~ Jenna Bush
And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.
~ Jenna Elfman
There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.
~ Jenna Elfman