Quotes About Women

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

It never ceases to amaze me how many women struggle with self-belief while the vast majority of men have no trouble with it at all.

I think one of the great dangers faced by women over sixty in this country is starving to death in a restaurant. We were invisible.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

For both men and women the first step in getting power is to become visible to others, and then to put on an impressive show...As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as WOMEN see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we'll all be better off for it.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

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It was a love story, of course, which held the women in thrall, even though most of them had heard it many times before, but it was also a poignant story of the love two brothers had for each other.

Una vieja crónica tailandesa hace la siguiente descripción de los farang: "Son excesivamente altos, peludos y desaseados. Educan a sus hijos durante mucho tiempo y consagran su vida a acumular riquezas. Sus mujeres, grandes y robustas, son muy bellas. No cultivan arroz".

Kritan women once danced supplely around a beautiful altar with light feet, crushing the soft flowers of grass.

Now she stands out among Lydian women as after sunset the rose-fingered moon exceeds all stars.

To be a feminist at work is or should be about how we challenge ordinary and everyday sexism, including academic sexism. This is not optional: it is what makes feminism feminist. A feminist project is to find ways in which women can exist in relation to women; how women can be in relation to each other. It is a project because we are not there yet.

Today I am here to recruit detectives to assist in fighting an epidemic that is raging across this country. A disease being spread by medical practitioners themselves. And not just charlatans or low men, no. Doctors, nurses, druggists, and midwives supply information and instructions on contraceptive methods to any woman who asks—and worse, they will sell syringes and rubber caps

I'm sure there are many women who would prefer not to have children, but few of them are honest with themselves about that.

But a true friendship between women is the strongest bond of all.

Young people today (finally, I'm old enough to use that cliché) seem to have no real conception of how bad things were for women and, more important, could be again.

Some men can only admire independent women at a distance.

Dije que los libros transtornan, especialmente a las mujeres, y conté de la madre de Susana que leyó unas cuantas páginas en su vida pero eso bastó para que lo abandonara todo, de Susana que siempre soñó con escribir aunque fuera sólo uno, de mi madre que me crió obedeciendo al pie de la letra las instrucciones de varios, de mí que partí a un país lejano y desconocido en busca de lo que ellos ofrecen y de mi hija que ni los mira.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.