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Quotes About Women

Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.
~ Ousmane Sembene
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
~ Alice James
As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.
~ Peg Bracken
I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.
~ Anne Desclos
Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
~ Alice Walker
Well it's a gloomy, rainy old day to be here in London, but it could be worse; I could be in Saudi Arabia where men are men, and women are cattle.
~ Pat Condell
The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
~ Florence King
Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.
~ Christine Lagarde
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
~ Betty Dodson
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
~ Thomas Beecham
I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.
~ Lisa Kudrow
Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.
~ Muhammad Ali
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
~ Judy Chicago
It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.
~ Greg Giraldo
I really want to help write women back into history.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
~ Jessica Valenti
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
~ Erica Jong
I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.
~ Dalia Mogahed
Men date. Women have relationships.
~ Cathy Guisewite
The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
~ Michael M. Honda