Quotes About Women

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

I have always been drawn to strong and interesting women, people who have navigated that world before you and maintained their integrity and sense of self.

Women need a space that quenches their intellectual hunger, engages and empowers them with relatable content.

A lot of intelligent women make foolish choices.

You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.

Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature.

Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.

As women, I think we're used to looking around to see what people think about this, who's approving of us, who's criticizing us, and whether we have to internalize their thoughts on us.

We're trying to create one holistic beauty experience where you can be inspired by other women, both the people we're interviewing and the community contributing to the conversation.

And so another season passed, and I hadn't seen Brian, yet another terrible tangle with Peter went by, and anyone who loved me I avoided like the plague. Can things get worse? I kept wondering, and surprisingly, they did. Until finally I read this book by Fay Weldon, and she talks about a woman married to a depressed man and explains there's nothing you (i.e., women) can do about them. And fiction got through to me where facts had feared to tread.

The word "escape" had blown out the glow: it was so boring of these American women to imagine they were worth pursuing.

And he treated me with a chivalrous masculine know-how that I sopped up like a person who'd never heard of how chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.

He was adequate, a typical mediocre white male whose career advanced because he was not entirely horrible. Women have to work so much harder than men to appear half as convincing.

Women are prepared to suffer for love; it's written into their birth certificates.

Women fell in love with Mary. They thought of her as unattainably beautiful and adopted as many of her mannerisms as they could. It didn't matter to them that she lacked that element, raw and beckoning, that trailed like a vapor after Gabrielle. There was an exotic, ladylike essence in Mary that stunned women who understood just what utter waxlike, blossom perfection she was.

chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.

The U.N. now says that one out of three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in their lifetime; we're talking about the desecration of the primary resource of the planet."

There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are

Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women—that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life

The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all. p. xxxii

transformed, and transported by one specific guide—a visionary, an activist, an outrageous fighter and dreamer. I have come to know these women (and sometimes men) as Vagina Warriors.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

Lentamente compresi come nulla fosse più importante del porre fine alla violenza nei confronti delle donne, che in verità la dissacrazione delle donne rivelava il fallimento degli esseri umani nell'onorare e proteggere la vita

Não aguento mais a passividade dos homens bons. Cadê vocês, merda? Vocês vivem com a gente, transam com a gente, nos têm como filhas, amigas, irmãs, são nutridos, criados e eternamente amados por nós, e como não lutam do nosso lado? Por que não vão à loucura e tomam uma atitude contra nosso estupro e nossa humilhação?