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Quotes About Women

I am strong. I have learned. I love Love and have plenty to give. It is my powerful destiny that I am supposed to raise two good girls into two great women! All right. Here we go, my beautiful little girls. Here we go.
~ Drew Barrymore
I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.
~ Drew Curtis
Working women seemed "brazen," even to those like Lila Chunn who understood and encouraged necessary departures from tradition.
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
For many women like Sarah Morgan, clothing at once expressed desire and dread, possibility and impossibility. "If I was only a man!" she exclaimed. "I dont know a woman here who does not groan over her misfortune in being clothed in petticoats; why cant we fight as well as the men[?]
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
As the Reverend Robert Barnwell emphasized in an address to the ladies of Charleston, "WITHOUT YOU, THIS WAR COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON, FOR THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT PREPARED TO MEET ALL THAT WAS THROWN UPON IT.
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.
~ Marian Keyes
Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
~ Vanessa Paradis
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
~ Zainab Salbi
Life with three daughters can be nerve-wracking, but it's amazing to be loved by so many different women.
~ Laird Hamilton
There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.
~ Dustin Hoffman
What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.
~ Jill Clayburgh
There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.
~ Jill Clayburgh
Why does she always have the moral high ground, what is it about women, always behaving so well and thinking of things we should have thought of first and shaming us?
~ Jill Dawson
I'm grateful to her. This habit women have - a role Helen often claimed not to want - of telling me what I'm feeling. Tremendously helpful. Like having an interpreter at hand to translate you to yourself.
~ Jill Dawson
Between 1910 and 1920, the percentage of married women who worked had nearly doubled, and the number of married women in the professions had risen by 40 percent, Collier noted. "The question, therefore, is no longer, should women combine marriage with careers, but how?"23
~ Jill Lepore
Girls are important: "Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.
~ Jill Lepore
The rise of the modern welfare system is often traced to the pension system instituted for Union veterans in the 1870s, but it was the Confederacy—and Southern white women—that laid its foundation.81
~ Jill Lepore
Whoever wrote it, "Wonder Women of History" was entirely consistent with Marston's hope, in creating Wonder Woman, "to combat the idea that women are inferior to men, and to inspire girls to self-confidence and achievement in athletics, occupations and professions monopolized by men.
~ Jill Lepore
Muller v. Oregon established the constitutionality of labor laws (for women), the legitimacy of sex discrimination in employment, and the place of social science research in the decisions of the courts.
~ Jill Lepore
I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
~ Jill Shalvis
I'm bored stiff by ballet. i can't bear those muscular white legs like unbaked plaited loaves, and I get quite hysterical every time one of the women sticks out her leg at right angles, and the man suddenly grabs it and walks round in a circle as though he were opening a tin.
~ Jilly Cooper
The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.
~ Jimmy Carter
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
~ Jimmy Carter