Quotes About Women

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Women do not get raped because they weren't careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

I think what irks me is that I feel like women are really being compartmentalized physically, and it's been done so much that now we're doing it to ourselves. I don't like it.

I think when we were starting off, I picked a group of women to represent me. The top tiers of everyone that I've worked with are women. It felt more comfortable because they can relate to me.

To be on stage, to be sharing a stage with Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, SZA, Kelis, and all these incredible women, I'm like 'When did this happen?'

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.

A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.