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Quotes About Women

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
~ Salma Hayek
Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
~ Remy de Gourmont
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
~ Barry Goldwater
I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.
~ Jack Nicholson
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Empowering women isn't just the right thing to do - it's the smart thing to do.
~ Barack Obama
My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
~ Lauren Mayberry
The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
~ Louise Slaughter
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
~ Bertrand Russell
We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
~ Annie Lennox
Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.
~ Annie Lennox
It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.
~ Maureen Dowd
We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
~ Margaret Cho
There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
~ Rachel Hunter
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
~ Barbara Bush
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
~ Bertrand Russell
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
~ Juvenal
Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.
~ Jack Nicholson
that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)
~ Jane Austen