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Quotes About Women

Obama and the liberal Democrats fail to represent the silent majority: the conservative women who are too busy raising families, paying bills, and making a living. These women prefer to listen to Rush Limbaugh, not Nancy Pelosi, and want their children to have jobs and a bright future in this great country.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
I don't force reinvention. I play with silhouette and color, since Indian as well as Caribbean women have a penchant for these.
~ Masaba Gupta
To the extent that someone goes out to criticize another woman about hair, makeup, silliness like that - unless you're talking about a makeup artist or something, really stop and think about what you're doing and why you're doing it.
~ Marcia Clark
I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
~ Naomi Judd
What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.
~ Kathryn Stockett
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
~ Gloria Steinem
What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.
~ Kathryn Stockett
To have Hollywood tell me or other women like me that we're not a market that interests them is silly. Good stories work.
~ Phyllida Lloyd
Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good.
~ Nicholas Kristof
I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.
~ Elsa Peretti
The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
I was one of the first women partners at my law firm, the first woman in my Minnesota prosecutor job, and the first woman elected from my state to the Senate. So advice from women who had done similar things was important for me.
~ Amy Klobuchar
While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.
~ Carre Otis
Once a date asked me what I do, so I said that my company empowers women in their dating lives. Her response? 'Aw, that's so cute!' Cute is how my babysitter described me when I was 7 years old. Simple fix: Replace cute with hot and he'll feel like James Bond.
~ Matthew Hussey
The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
~ Ellen Key
Women fail, very simply, if they have no guidance and friendships in art, if they are not perceived as, or permitted to be, artists, and if they have no institutional access.
~ Agnes Gund
Remember, they hate us as no other nation, for we are to them that which they fear beyond all: women unmastered by men.
~ Steven Pressfield
Our very existence makes them abominate us, for it calls their own wives and daughters to aspire to freedom.
~ Steven Pressfield
Leonidas began softly, his voice carrying in the dawn stillness, heard with ease by all. "Shall I tell you where I find this strength, friends? In the eyes of our sons in scarlet before us, yes. And in the countenances of their comrades who will follow in battles to come. But more than that, my heart finds courage from these, our women, who watch in tearless silence as we go.
~ Steven Pressfield
The year after Thermopylae, the Greek fleet and army threw back the Persian multitudes at Salamis and Plataea. The West survived then, in no small measure because of her women.
~ Steven Pressfield
The first opportunity for this came right away. I had started a new weekly women
~ Stormie Omartian
The basic characteristics of any good investigator are a plodding nature and infinite patience. Society has inadvertently been grooming women to this end for years.
~ Sue Grafton
All Southern women have murder just under the surface, but we cloak it in graciousness.
~ Sue Grafton
But we are now starting to realize that traumatic stress is almost as common as depression. More than 12 percent of U.S. women in a recent large survey reported having significant post-traumatic stress at some point in their lives.
~ Sue Johnson