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Quotes About Women

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.
~ Herbie Mann
I would like people to remember that I am also someone's daughter, sister and expect the same respect and treatment that they would want for the women in their house.
~ Sara Khan
It's time for some equal-opportunity accountability. Without it, the fight against media misogyny will continue to be perceived as a proxy war for the Democratic Party, not a fight for fair treatment of women in the public square.
~ Kirsten Powers
Without access to quality, affordable reproductive health services - which are standard medical care - women will die because they are forced to forego the necessary prevention and treatment for cervical cancer.
~ Leana S. Wen
In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.
~ Phyllida Lloyd
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
~ Wangari Maathai
I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
~ Annie Lennox
I think that men have tremendous ability to lead. And I think women have a tremendous ability to lead, and they lead differently, and it gives a wonderful perspective to the problems.
~ Goldie Hawn
Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.
~ Bonnie Hammer
I am tremendously inspired by many women around the world who work under dire circumstances to make a difference for their families.
~ Joyce Banda
Women, if left to their own devices, are going to tend and trend Democratic. That is absolutely the case.
~ Kellyanne Conway
The general trend in television is to be more transparent, and that is especially true for women: to not pretend that we wake up with our hair in perfect shellacked bobs.
~ Alex Wagner
Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!
~ Betsy Beers
I'm always scared of trends. The runways are always so trend-oriented, but I always feel for the women. The real women that buy cosmetics want to see the trends, but they don't necessarily go for them. And I always encourage women to find what looks best on them.
~ Francois Nars
Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself!
~ Leandra Medine
In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.
~ Lucy Powell
Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that she's quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn't been able to in the past.
~ Mary Dillon
I think it's very important to women what they want to watch. They're looking all the time to the red carpet to see what to wear, and it sets off all sorts of trends.
~ Jenny Packham
For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.
~ Saffron Burrows
All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.
~ Rose George
Dorothy L. Sayers is absolutely my favorite The reason she stands above Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham is because she was so subtly aware of the lot and trials of women of her decade.
~ Lucy Worsley
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
~ Germaine Greer
It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.
~ Nelson Algren
I go to body combat classes. There's something very tribal about being in a room with 30 other women punching and kicking!
~ Sara Cox