Quotes About Women

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Mary Magdalene is recorded in the Gospels as present at the Crucifixion and at Christ's burial, and to have gone, with other women, to the tomb on Easter morning. She is the first to have learned the tomb was empty. She heard from an angel that Christ had been raised. She is the first person to have seen Jesus after his resurrection. She is the first to have proclaimed Jesus was raised from the dead. She plays a central place in Jesus's ministry.

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

Bloody biology curses women every time.

A lifetime assault of contradictory messages–to be sexy, to respect, that all men were dogs but without them women were nothing–reinforced her sense of powerlessness and futility.

The universal quest to find balance and harmony between men and women, beings who are at once so alike and so different, lies at the heart of all Amazon tales.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Re-vision—the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction—is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted", for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other's sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.

I want to crawl into her for refuge lay my head in the space between her breast and shoulder abnegating power for love as women have done

The tentativeness, the anxiety, sometimes approaching paralysis, the confusing, described in many of these essays by intelligent, educated, "privileged" women, are themselves evidence of the damage that an be done to the creative energy by the lack of continuity, historical validation, community. Most women, it seems, have gone through their travails in a kind of spiritual isolation, alone both in the present and in ignorance of their place in any female tradition.

A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better.

In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.

I'm passionate about cooking. I'm passionate about healthy eating. I'm passionate about inspiring other women.

I think women love a passionate love story.

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

I think the term feminist is scary for women, because it means that you're extreme in some way, and I'm not extreme in any way, although I do passionately believe that a woman's role within any organisation is to assist and help other women.

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.