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Quotes About Women

People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.
~ Jenny Eclair
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
~ Dale Spender
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
~ Lesley Nicol
I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.
~ Rene Magritte
I think grooming is definitely undervalued by men. We all expect women to be fully groomed, which they do. But I also think it's just as important for a man to look fresh and clean.
~ Lewis Hamilton
The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.
~ Saxby Chambliss
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
~ Pam Grier
In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.
~ Alexander Berkman
I like my whisky old and my women young.
~ Errol Flynn
What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.
~ Emory Douglas
The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.
~ Rita Mae Brown
It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
~ Zainab Salbi
The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.
~ Sigmund Freud
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
~ Bertrand Russell
There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.
~ Humphrey Bogart
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
~ Salman Rushdie
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.
~ Margaret Atwood
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.
~ Fannie Barrier Williams
I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.
~ Emmeline B. Wells
Don't forget during the primary debates when Trump pointed at Carly Fiorina and said, "Look at that face, who would vote for her?" That tells you everything about him and what he cares about women.
~ Maxine Waters
Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.
~ Star Jones
I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.
~ Gisele Bundchen
The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter