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Quotes About Women

I'm from Georgia, honey. We consider all women dangerous; it's part of their charm.
~ Lisa Gardner
Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.
~ Patricia Heaton
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
~ Nancy Friday
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
~ Naomi Wolf
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
~ Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
~ Naomi Wolf
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
~ Naomi Wolf
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
~ Kofi Annan
If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.
~ Jill Scott
I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.
~ Charlize Theron
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
~ Jimmy Carter
In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
~ Robert Bly
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
~ Faye Wattleton
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
~ Candace Bushnell
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
~ Germaine Greer
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
~ James Earl Jones
For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it's a valuable message for women in today's society to learn to love yourself.
~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.
~ Margo MacDonald
We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.
~ Sara Sheridan
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
~ Erma Bombeck
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
~ Albert Einstein
But, then, you were born a pagan; I am trying laboriously to make myself one. I can take nothing for granted, I can enjoy nothing as it comes along. Beauty, pleasure, art, women - I have to invent an excuse, a justification for everything that's delightful. Otherwise I can't enjoy it with an easy conscience.
~ Aldous Huxley
As for women, I am perpetually assuring myself that they're the broad highway to divinity
~ Aldous Huxley
They're so hateful, the women here. Mad, mad and cruel. And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort. So they're having children all the time—like dogs. It's too revolting.
~ Aldous Huxley