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Quotes About Women

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.
~ Ousmane Sembene
If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster
~ Mary Robinson
It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women
~ Michel Odent
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
~ Isabel Allende
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
~ Carol P. Christ
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.
~ Chris Martin
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.
~ Eric Andre
It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
~ Ela Bhatt
Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices
~ Kiran Bedi
There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
~ Loretta Lynn
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
~ Nicole Kidman
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country
~ Barbara Mikulski
As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.
~ Victoria Osteen
I am for wine and the embrace of questionable women.
~ Gannicus
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
~ Ruth Benedict
Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.
~ Sandra Bullock
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
~ Melinda Gates
...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
~ Arundhati Roy