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Quotes About Women

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
~ Barbara Walters
Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.
~ Cathleen Schine
The implication that women are poised to make unfounded accusations in droves is even more alarming when every piece of data on false reporting contradicts that false notion. We need to believe women and believe in women.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.
~ Andrea Jung
I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they're oftentimes looked to for perspective and not implementation.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
~ Jon Meacham
For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.
~ Warren Farrell
I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.
~ Gloria Steinem
I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.
~ Lubna Olayan
I'm a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.
~ Deepika Padukone
My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.
~ Claire Danes
I think women are not as hung up on the testosterone thing. They're more collaborative. They multitask better, and I think they're more results-oriented. They just want to cut to the chase and get it done.
~ Linda McMahon
While it's true that women are the minority in most tech companies, I don't think that inhibits entry into the tech space. My motto has always been, 'Live What You Love,' and as such, I think it's incredibly important to do work you believe in and to work for a company that has values that align with your own, be it in tech or another industry.
~ Brit Morin
Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
~ Steve Breen
Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
~ Aaron Lazar
Women are not all single-issue voters.
~ Carly Fiorina
Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.
~ Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.
~ Madhuri Dixit
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what's going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.
~ Cillian Murphy
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
~ Vincent Cassel
Russian women are now interested in clothes. But they will never attach supreme importance to fashions as do Europeans and American women, because they are too vitally interested in all the various projects going on in their country.
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
~ Caroline Knapp
Women are suspicious of this male ritual of the bachelor party and are suspicious of what men do and say when they are not being watched by them.
~ Craig Mazin