Quotes About Women

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.

Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out.

Cancers of all types among women are increasing

Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.