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Quotes About Women

It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.
~ Rahul Gandhi
Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
~ Dorothy Parker
There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.
~ Nelson Mandela
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
~ Jane Rule
The enemy of feminism isn't men. It's patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.
~ Justine Musk
When I was in Vegas women were throwing their hotel keys at me. But it was after they checked out.
~ George Burns
I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
~ Melinda Gates
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
~ Amartya Sen
In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
~ Queen Noor of Jordan
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
~ Shulamith Firestone
Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on.
~ Bo Burnham
Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.
~ H. G. Wells
So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?
~ Kathleen Hanna
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
~ Oscar Wilde
Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.
~ Taslima Nasrin
I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.
~ Elizabeth Holmes
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
~ Peter O'Toole
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
~ Antonia Fraser