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Quotes About Women

Women have shown their skills and that's why they have been accepted in the industry. It's through their skill that they have managed to make a mark for themselves and also earned respect.
~ Shoojit Sircar
I personally served on active duty with many women service members who consistently demonstrated tremendous skill, leadership, and unquestioned commitment.
~ Ralph Northam
It actually makes perfect sense why women in Hollywood get so skinny: because it's a way of controlling how people see you.
~ Julia Stiles
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.
~ Louise Penny
I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.
~ Prabal Gurung
She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.
~ Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
~ Antonia Fraser
God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.
~ Amy Pascal
I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.
~ Andie MacDowell
'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.
~ Betty Friedan
There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.
~ Betty Friedan
The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly opposed the vote for women...
~ Betty Friedan
If a woman had a problem in the 1950's and 1960's, she knew that something must be wrong with her marriage, or with herself. Other women were satisfied with their lives, she thought. What kind of a woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfillment waxing the kitchen floor? She was so ashamed to admit her dissatisfaction that she never know how many other women shared it.
~ Betty Friedan
There was a strange discrepancy between the reality of our lives as women and the image to which we were trying to conform, the image that I came to call the feminine mystique.
~ Betty Friedan
The concept "penis envy," which Freud coined to describe a phenomenon he observed in women—that is, in the middle-class women who were his patients in Vienna in the Victorian era—was seized in this country in the 1940's as the literal explanation of all that was wrong with American women.
~ Betty Friedan
Why is it never said that the really crucial function, the really important role that women serve as housewives is to buy more things for the house .
~ Betty Friedan
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women; it has often cloaked a very real prejudice, even when it is offered in the name of science.
~ Betty Friedan
Women who had once wanted careers were now making careers out of having babies.
~ Betty Friedan
The problem that has no name — which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities — is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
~ Betty Friedan
But 62 percent of White women without college degrees voted for Trump
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
I know the heart of womenkind, and none do willingly yield their lives.
~ Bharati Mukherjee