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Quotes About Women

I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby!
~ Matthew Perry
Much of the discussion around how people look at women focuses on culture, as if the media is entirely to blame. As if, without magazines and commenting hosts, we'd all suddenly dress in practical overalls and only judge a person on the quality of their charity work and poetry.
~ Sara Pascoe
For a country such as India, whose public healthcare system is already severely strained, the lack of awareness and adaptation of safe practices by menstruating women is known to add another dimension to the overall problem.
~ Shabana Azmi
The one woman Trump does seem to totally respect is his daughter from his first marriage, Ivanka, on whom he heaps constant, effusive, at-times borderline creepy praise and physical affection.
~ Joy Reid
I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'
~ Caroline Knapp
To represent the Latin American people - especially Latin American women... there's not many of us fighting. To be one of the ones that are able to set a precedent and to fight in Mexico is really amazing.
~ Tecia Torres
Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy.
~ Eric Metaxas
All my friends are girls. I just prefer the company of women.
~ Louise Nurding
My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.
~ Rodney Crowell
Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.
~ Isabella Lovin
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
~ Nicholas Kristof
I think that there's a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions.
~ Emily Oster
We must not let politicians who believe they are above the Constitution interfere with the personal health decisions of women. It is the job of a woman, not a politician, to make informed decisions about her own pregnancy.
~ Mike Quigley
I think it's important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don't have value. There is massive pregnancy discrimination, in parliament and right across society.
~ Jo Swinson
I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.
~ Dana Perino
We are genuinely in a world that criticises women even when they are going through the biggest physical challenge of their life: pregnancy.
~ Jameela Jamil
It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture.
~ Jennifer Hyman
I've been my normal self during pregnancy. I want other women who get nervous and anxious to experience the same comfort as me and to not feel awkward about their weight or baby bump.
~ Lara Dutta
One in five women experience a mental health condition during pregnancy, or in the year after giving birth. It can affect any woman. And it can be devastating.
~ Luciana Berger
No woman should ever have to choose between maintaining a healthy pregnancy and a paycheck.
~ Lucy McBath
I think it's really easy for women that haven't put on weight to make comments about other women's pregnancies.
~ Frankie Bridge
More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.
~ Christy Turlington
The best way to handle women is to keep them pregnant and barefoot.
~ Bobby Riggs
You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.
~ Cybill Shepherd