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Quotes About Women

Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.
~ Claudia Llosa
Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.
~ Camille Paglia
I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.
~ Liz Phair
Women like this kind of rebel image in men because there's a thrill in it, especially for those who are tired and burdened with their lives.
~ Seungri
Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.
~ Samuel Rogers
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
~ Margaret Drabble
More and more women are going online.
~ Jesse Schell
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
~ T. S. Eliot
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.
~ Jane Curtin
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
We dance with women in groups, but it is very rare that you have a partner that is a woman. The dance world is very macho - woman, boy, always couples, and it's very standardized.
~ Blanca Li
I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
~ Sophocles
Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.
~ Stephen Colbert
The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.
~ Robin Lim
Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.
~ Michaela Angela Davis
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
~ Tina Fey
I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.
~ James Ellroy
Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.
~ Kin Hubbard
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
~ Marie of Romania
Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.
~ Mark Driscoll
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
~ Paul Getty
Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.
~ Melinda Gates