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Quotes About Women

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
~ Bette Davis
Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.
~ Melissa Farley
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.
~ Rick Santorum
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
~ Clara Zetkin
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
~ Glenn Close
That it's possible to do positive things and I think that's how we're going to set an example to be respected as women in the world.
~ Misty Copeland
Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
~ John McGraw
[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.
~ Madame de Stael
I hate when women compare men to dogs. Men are not dogs. Dogs are loyal. I've never found any strange panties in my dog's house.
~ Wanda Sykes
Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.
~ Peter Sellers
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
~ Elizabeth Drew
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
~ William Faulkner
The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.
~ Stevie Nicks
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .
~ Janet Flanner
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
~ John Quincy Adams
There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.
~ Jon Voight
I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
~ Darren Aronofsky
To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.
~ Michael Z. Williamson
In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.
~ Lynsey Addario
Jessica Pearson isn't a unicorn. She's not a mythological creature. She's an example of so many women out there that are ruling their part of the world and doing an incredible job.
~ Gina Torres
I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves.
~ Roxane Gay