Quotes About Women

My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.

Even in the political arena, we need good people to join politics. I believe women can lead the country.

Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women.

The relatively high status of women in Western Europe was an accidental by-product of the church's self-interest. The church made it difficult for a widow to remarry within the family group and thereby reconvey her property back to the tribe, so she had to own the property herself. A woman's right to own property and dispose of it as she wished stood to benefit the church, since it provided a large source of donations from childless widows and spinsters.

Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.

Hay quienes tienen terror a las mujeres, que son tan inofensivas e inferiores.

Las mujeres, el alcohol, la soledad. Quizá sean éstas las tres claves que lo explican todo y no explican nada.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

The girls were taught by their mothers and grandmothers to look seriously upon life, to shun the frivolous, and to avoid giggling. With the Blackfeet, women "gave" the sun-dances, the most sacred of their religious ceremonies; and because the "givers" of these sun-dances must have lived exemplary lives to have dared offer dances to the sun, they were forever afterward highly honored by both the men and women of the tribe.

the easiest to conquer were also more worthy of it, because women have better intuition than men for the love affinity.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

of other women. Oppression is most powerful when internalized and self-imposed. Self-oppression (knowing your "place") becomes a passport to acceptance by the dominant group. Sometime fundamentalist women perpetrate crimes against their daughters by training them to act subservient to

I shouted, "Jesus liked hanging out with women and kids too! So fuck you!

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Mead stresses the universality of male competition, stating that "in every known human society, the male's need for achievement can be recognized." Men, to feel fulfilled and successful, need to excel at something—to be better at it than other men and better than women.13

There is in fact no data demonstrating that men are more hierarchical than women. The only difference one study reported is that when people are put together in same-gender groups, men settle on a rank order more quickly than women. Women do eventually always form one, however.

That which serves life is the business of women. [Jeremiah, to Queen Maacha]

Faces are all important. Without faces it would be impossible to identify our friends. If we had to recognize people by their bodies, we could only tell men from women. With career women, in many cases this would be impossible.

the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and do not do so to this day. Full veiling is an urban and largely modern institution.

Et depuis quand les évêques s'y connaissent-ils en femmes? —Très longue histoire. La nuit des temps —répondit l'évêque.

Altogether it is reckoned that around 1.9 million German women were raped by Soviet soldiers in the final months of the war and those immediately following the peace.12