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Quotes About Women

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.
~ Tracy Morgan
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
~ Carol P. Christ
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.
~ Gal Gadot
And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.
~ Lynn Redgrave
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
~ Barack Obama
There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.
~ Sue Wicks
If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
~ Melinda Gates
Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
~ Hillary Clinton
Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.
~ John Gray
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
~ Norm MacDonald
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women
~ Naomi Wolf
Women's loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind
~ Waris Dirie
As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.
~ Ellen Tauscher
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.
~ Herbert Marcuse
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.
~ Emma Bonino
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
~ Milton Berle
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger