Quotes About Women

Many of us daughters have had to live the lives that our mothers could not.

Al Califa de Bagdad ke hubiera gustado saber que las mujeres queremos amor antes que nada. Tenemos algo raro en el cerebro, una especie de tumor, que nos impulsa al amor. No podemos vivir sin amor. Por amor aguantamos a nuestros críos y a los hombres.

XXI las mujeres cambiarán la naturaleza del poder, en vez de que el poder cambie la naturaleza de las mujeres».

la emancipación de las mujeres, que han tomado por asalto el mundo de los hombres. Tuvimos que actuar como ellos, aprender sus tácticas y competir.

No me explico qué atrajo a Willie, que tiene un pasado de mujeres altas y rubias, a mí me atrojo su historia.

No me explico qué atrajo a Willie, que tiene un pasado de mujeres altas y rubias, a mí me atrajo su historia.

Las sociedades más atrasadas y miserables son aquellas en las que las mujeres están sometidas. Si se ayuda a una mujer, sus hijos no se mueren de hambre, y si las familias progresan, se beneficia la aldea, pero esta verdad tan evidente es ignorada en el mundo de la filantropía, donde por cada dólar que se destina a programas de mujeres, se entregan veinte a los de hombres

I had been assured that, as long as I was still nursing Juan Martín, I'd be safeguarded against another pregnancy, but it turned out to be another of the lies peddled to women at that time.

Respect, compliance, and fear, which are instilled in women from infancy, are so detrimental to us that we don't even know our own power. So great is that power, the patriarchy's goal is to crush it by any means, including the worst forms of violence. These methods are so successful that frequently the most rabid defenders of the patriarchy are women.

According to the Dalai Lama, the only hope for peace and prosperity lies in the hands of women in the West.

All husbands are boring, John. No woman with an ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

A lot of women in New Zealand feel like they have to make a choice between having babies and having a career or continuing their career. So is that a decision you feel you have to make or that you feel you've already made?

I come from a place that is very politically sophisticated and progressive. New Zealand was the first place to give women the right to vote.

Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.

I apologize for being the voice of reason here, but this sports fan has almost zero interest in seeing women dunk a basketball. It's a nice little novelty act that has a very short life span.

A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.

It's so important for me to share my story and inspire other women to feel comfortable in their skin and to know that your size has zero impact on the goals you set for yourself.

When I first signed a contract with a women's team, my contract stated that if I played, I would get 100 pounds, and if I didn't play, it would be zero.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

Because of restrictions on abortion access in their own state, many women in neighboring states are forced to travel hundreds of miles and cross state lines to seek an abortion. However, their rights should not have to depend on their zip code.

I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.

I feel, at times, women in India go beyond their comfort zone just to clad the trend, and that automatically becomes a faux pas. If you are not comfortable with something, please don't wear it.