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Quotes About Women

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.
~ Louise Slaughter
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
~ Zaha Hadid
I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
~ Laura Kightlinger
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
~ Naomi Watts
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.
~ NeNe Leakes
Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
~ Eva Herzigova
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
~ Serena Williams
Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.
~ Garry Marshall
His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.
~ Joseph Nye
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
~ Harri Holkeri
Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.
~ Dorothy Richardson
Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.
~ Helene Cixous
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
~ James Thurber
I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.
~ Sherry Glaser
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
~ Gertrude Atherton
If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.
~ Hillary Clinton
Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
~ Richard Carmona
The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
~ Eleanor Clift
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
~ Julie Burchill
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.
~ Ann Landers
At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.
~ Ellen Malcolm