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Quotes About Women

I'm all for Hillary Clinton. I want her to avoid the barbs of women who hate women who work. But I'm known as a Republican in Washington. I'm probably the last person she'd call.
~ Letitia Baldrige
I could hardly say whether women were happy or not. I knew one who had not been happy; and for my part, I had often longed for Fairy Land, as she now longed for the world of men. But then neither of us had lived long, and perhaps people grew happier as they grew older. Only I doubted it.
~ George MacDonald
If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
~ George Orwell
Women who do not marry wither up - they wither up like aspidistras in back-parlour windows; and the devilish thing is that they don't even know they're withering.
~ George Orwell
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.
~ George Orwell
Still, if you gave me the choice of having any woman you care to name, but I mean any woman, or catching a ten-pound carp, the carp would win every time.
~ George Orwell
I noticed how the attitude of women varies with a man's clothes. When a badly dressed man passes them they shudder away from him with a quite frank movement of disgust, as though he were a dead cat. Clothes are very powerful things.
~ George Orwell
He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.
~ George Orwell
The thousand dresses, laid out so reverently that afternoon, flecks of dust brushed off carefully in doorways, hems gathered up for the carriage trip: where are they now? Is a single one museum-displayed? Are some few yet saved in attics? Most are dust. As are the women who wore them so proudly in that transient moment of radiance.
~ George Saunders
Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.
~ George W. Bush
Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country. (Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September, 2004)
~ George W. Bush
The truth of the matter is, I will miss being the commander in chief of such a fabulous group of men and women -- those who wear the uniform of the United States military.
~ George W. Bush
America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude.
~ George W. Bush
There are women whose love only ends with death.
~ Georges Rodenbach
It is the tyranny of the weak, isn't it? The weapons being tears, reproaches, vapours, and other such unscrupulous means which are employed by gentle, helpless women like your aunt!
~ Georgette Heyer
A la gente que empieza una frase con personalmente, y siempre son mujeres, deberían arrojarla a los leones. Es una costumbre repulsiva.
~ Georgette Heyer
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
~ Germaine Greer
Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.
~ Germaine Greer
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.
~ Germaine Greer
The more you see how the country is the more you do not wonder why they shut the door. The women do in a way and yet if they did not it would be best.
~ Gertrude Stein
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
~ Miriam Makeba
A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.
~ Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The women Democrats and Republicans work together incredibly well.
~ Amy Klobuchar
I opened Leith's in Notting Hill in 1969 and it eventually worked its way into being awarded a Michelin star. At the time, there were a few women running small bistros - but I was the first woman to have a 'serious,' expensive restaurant.
~ Prue Leith