Quotes About Women

I like Kelela. I like Twigs. I love the more old school; I hate to say old school, but I love Peaches; I love Peaches, I love Cat Power. And there's constantly new things coming up. But there's something so beautifully powerful - for me being a woman, when there's a woman doing something, it really strikes a chord.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

I have tremendous respect for women. I love them. I don't know why they want to step down.

Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

Ah, Milk Duds. The official candy of pissed-off fat women everywhere.

Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. "There's only one good use for a man like Heath Champion." "Here we go again," Molly muttered. Phoebe's lip curled. "Target practice.

As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.

I'll take care of my mother," he said grimly. "I love her, but she doesn't run my life." "Yeah, that's what we all say. You. Me. Lucy." She stabbed the stick into the dirt. "These are powerful women. They're sane, they're smart, they rule their worlds, and they love us ferociously. A potent combination that makes it touch to pretend they're normal mothers.

Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.

And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.

He was a glittering superhuman creature who must have been put on earth by a perverse God to remind homely women like herself that some things were unobtainable.

Gli uomini straordinari erano per le donne straordinarie, e lei era irrimediabilmente ordinaria

Daphne Du Maurier and Anya Seton, all of Mary Stewart's early books, along with Victoria Holt, Phyllis Whitney

Seguro que hiciste un pacto con el diablo: le diste el alma a cambio de saber cocinar.-Y de poder ver a través de la ropa de las mujeres -añadió Theo a la vez que dejaba caer una pinza vacía en el bol para los restos del caparazón.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finishing line.

All of women's aspirations – whether for education, work or any form of self-determination – ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children.