Quotes About Women

I never followed fashion. It's women who have dictated my conduct.

I think there's so many areas within the football game that women are being more involved in, and I think it's great to see.

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

I think it's important that we try to showcase what we're about as women footballers.

We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

The foreign policy community in Washington has been arguing that America must put our values at the head of our foreign policy once again - and I couldn't agree more, so let's start by leading on women.

At HBO, you've just basically got a studio full of artistically driven smart guys and women who really care about the quality first and foremost.

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.

I grew up in a house of forthright women.

I'm fortunate to have success, but it was a long and challenging road, so I try to make that not be the case for other women.

We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

My foundation is absolutely about the women we work with, and they are contributing every day to their families, to their communities, and to the economy of their countries. All we are doing is enabling them to be the best that they can be.

As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses.

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

When we frame women's choices in terms of extreme work or extreme mothering, women think they have to define themselves in terms of a single goal, everything else be damned.

I feel some responsibility, being one of the few women directors who are being given opportunities. Sometimes, that makes me want to take on some big franchise because I want to show people that women can do it.

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

Because we have more women in power now, frankly we are less likely to go to war. It's not in our nature really.

On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

A state should protect citizens in general and women in particular. And in the 21st Century, every society needs to respect the individual choice of its members to decide freely about their bodies.

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.