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Quotes About Women

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
~ Nancy Astor
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
~ John F. Kennedy
In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
~ Pope Francis
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
~ Michelle Bachelet
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
~ Lynn Nottage
Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
~ Milo Ventimiglia
You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
~ Helen Fisher
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.
~ Kieron Gillen
In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.
~ Emma Stone
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
~ Mary Astell
The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
~ Johnnetta B. Cole
To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
~ Camille Paglia
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
~ Anatole France
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
~ Colin Wilson
I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.
~ Felicity Jones
At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.
~ John Piper
The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable
~ Jane Campion
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.
~ Allen Toussaint
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal
~ Carol Ann Duffy
And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.
~ Yasunari Kawabata