Quotes About Women

With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.

Fashion is not enough anymore. It's not just about what you wear. I mean, I don't know how many women can afford to take the time to come to Paris for three fittings.

Paris is the destination for brokenhearted American women. I think men go there and have their hearts broken, but women come there with their hearts broken.

We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

Every time I go back to Paris, I'm so amazed by how little makeup French women wear. The approach to beauty there is more of a natural 'who you are,' but with American beauty, you can have fun with who you are.

Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility.

I don't have a worry about women because I keep reading that not only are they better at school, they are now better at parking, better at navigating... we know that women are good at everything.

We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this Malala one that's catching people's attention.

A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.

To every woman out there who thinks that they might like to get involved in politics or stand for parliament, I say go for it. If I can do it, so can you.

I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are layers upon layers upon layers, and you unpack new things constantly. I don't know how he knew so many things - about the world, about women, about human nature, life, death, our fears and hopes.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

Everyone should be allowed to participate in sport, because it helps you to become more confident. That is important for women in India, because we are not always treated as equals.

It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate.

There are so many things I'm so proud of: if we're talking just in-ring stuff, participating in the first-ever women's royal rumble. I was so grateful to be a part of history. I never thought there would be an all-women's royal rumble.

The MBA entrance exams are so quantitative-oriented that it keeps out more and more women from joining the MBA classes. If we were to make the entrance exams more all-rounded, you could see more participation.

The Miss America Organization's philanthropic arm is particularly appealing to me, as I have made it my mission to give back in ways that empower women and celebrate diversity.

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

As I was looking through a book about German Expressionist films and their stars, it all came together because of the extreme way actors made their faces up in those early day of film in order to pop out in the black-and-white. I just wanted to use makeup in the same way, partly perhaps because as women get older, they're told to wear less makeup.

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.