Quotes About Women

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident—all those epithets that strike right at our femininity.

Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women.

You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it starts to sink, for some reason, you get to leave with the kids and I have to stay -- that's why I get the dollar more an hour.

Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?

Too many doctors are going out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their ... their love with women all across this country.

Who was going to tell these women that they didn't have to live this way? I was.

We have also grown up with a body of literature created by women of color in the last thirty years-- Alice Walker's words about womanism, Gloria Anzaldua's theories about living in the borderlands and Audre Lorder's writing about silences and survival.

In war time women turn to red swivel-up scarlet and carmine not in solidarity with spilt blood but as a badge of beating hearts.

She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking; But there is something when man's eye appears Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.

Broadly speaking, the new moral history employed in this book is concerned with the nature of causation and agency in the course of human events. It attempts to explain behavior in given historical contexts by showing the relationship between principles and practice in the day-to-day actions and interactions of men and women in a social context.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Two young mothers were standing in the aisle and they turned when they heard him, and one of them lifted a finger to her lips to shush him. She was wearing a track suit and her blond hair was pulled back in a ponytail. She was vaguely attractive but already angry with him, so he looked to the other one. She was tall and slim with auburn hair and kind brown eyes and a nice mouth. Her face was wide open. She was pretty in a natural, athletic way.

back in the seventies four women were killed. Librarians....

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

The Bible was perfectly clear on this point: 'Woman shall be silent in the congregation.' What was there to discuss? Women had no business being members of the clergy.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

paperback novel of the escapist kind, SAS action stuff where men were men and women mattresses.

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

Oh, how I prefer the honest violence of men, who will bash in another man's skull and be done, to the thousand shallow cuts of women's malice.