Quotes About Women

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

The research indicates that when we women invest, we women do tend to be more patient, take a longer-term perspective and as a result of it, tend to be better investors than men. But the messages we get are that investing is sort of 'the guys' world.'

I feel like there's such ancient pain in us as humans. For instance, we come from this patriarchal lineage where women have been oppressed, and we're feeling, I think, collective pain from these energies being so out of balance.

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

There is no denying the fact that we live in a patriarchal society, and Bollywood is a patriarchal industry for sure. And it is not too fond of women with opinions.

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.'

To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.

Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.

In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.

People like Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut are really paving the way for successful women.

People ask me why I became an actor, and the truth is that once you get cut from the baseball team, you need another angle to get women to pay attention.

When I started to work in the kitchen, there's not a lot of women that were working and I didn't try to pay attention to that.

With affordable health care, women can have economic security and the peace of mind that they will not become a financial burden on their families.

Too many women don't see themselves in senior leadership and so don't push themselves to advance their careers as their male peer group do.

As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

I thought I'd never leave Pennsylvania. And I never imagined that I'd one day have the chance to lead the largest organization for girls and women around the world.

People talk about ballroom, but they don't really understand the history. Crystal Labeija, Avis Pendavis, Paris Dupree, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey. These were the women that really brought ballroom to life.

I want to develop women-oriented films because, in most of the films, 70 per cent of the focus is on heroes and the rest on the heroine.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

Women can better perceive injustice.

It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation.