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Quotes About Women

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.
~ Lori Lansens
I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
~ Lou Doillon
I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.
~ Lou Doillon
I love women, I think they're great.
~ Lou Reed
Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.
~ Louis Gustave Vapereau
The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost well.
~ Louise Bogan
Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
~ Louise Slaughter
The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
~ Lucy Walker
Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.
~ Lykke Li
You want to see women your own age in films.
~ Lynda Carter
When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
~ Lynda Obst
When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.
~ Lyndsy Fonseca
It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.
~ Lyndsy Fonseca
women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!
~ Madame de Stael
I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
~ Madeleine Albright
There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.
~ Madeleine Albright
I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.
~ Madeleine Albright
I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.
~ Madeleine Albright
I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
~ Madeleine Albright
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.
~ Madonna Ciccone
men are not realists - only women are.
~ Mae West
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal