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Quotes About Women

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.
~ Evan Dando
Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.
~ Lauren Miller
Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.
~ Christian Dior
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.
~ Susan Estrich
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
~ Moliere
She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced with cupcakes. Mmm. Cupcakes.
~ Kiersten White
If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
~ Agnes Macphail
A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
~ Meg Ryan
I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.
~ Michaela Angela Davis
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.
~ Sergio Leone
Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
~ Rachel True
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
~ Naomi Wolf
Women love firefighters so much because it's like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
~ Taylor Kinney
Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women.
~ Rachel Bloom
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
~ George Farquhar
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
~ Agnes Smedley
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.
~ Katey Sagal
These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.
~ Tulsi Gabbard
If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man.
~ Louis Farrakhan
The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.
~ Ahmed Rashid