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Quotes About Women

It's exciting when there is any growth in women's sport.
~ Ashleigh Barty
Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.
~ Jane Goodall
The world of social media can be so nasty and negative, especially for women.
~ Ananya Panday
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
~ Stephen Hawking
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
~ Joan Armatrading
I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.
~ Olivia Culpo
It's a rite of passage for all women to make sure the next generation is in a better place than you. I will play my part.
~ Lucy Bronze
I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
~ Oliver Reed
Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.
~ Amelia Earhart
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
~ Oscar de la Renta
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
~ Florence Nightingale
In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.
~ Rory McCann
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
~ Gloria Swanson
Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.
~ Michelle Obama
I think we are afraid to take up space. We are afraid to be amazing. As soon as that fear leaves us and we start building that confidence of being unapologetic about being great, then i think we can get into that space of having a lot of women leaders who are just fearless.
~ Zozibini Tunzi
The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
~ Oliver Tambo
It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
~ Jordan Peterson
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.
~ Adrienne Rich
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
~ Audre Lorde
All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.
~ Irina Shayk
Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.
~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
~ Gloria Steinem
I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.
~ Alice Paul