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Quotes About Women

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.
~ Mary Harron
I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.
~ Mary Kay Ash
I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.
~ Mary MacLane
I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.
~ Mary McCarthy
All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.
~ Mary Pipher
The more we talk about kindness in business, the more we'll break through the hard structures that have defined business and alienated women from getting to the top.
~ Mary Portas
The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women cinematographers than when I started.
~ Maryse Alberti
It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.
~ Matt Damon
I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.
~ Matthew Weiner
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
~ Maya Angelou
I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'
~ Maya Harris
I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.
~ Meg Tilly
It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.
~ Megan Chance
I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.
~ Megan Chance
I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].
~ Megan Chance
The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.
~ Megan Chance
I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.
~ Megan Griffiths
There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?
~ Meghan Daum
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Kellyanne Conway, been one of his most successful advisers, his most successful. Certainly the highest profile women associated with his campaign. Has he offered you a position?
~ Megyn Kelly
"The New York Times" is reporting correctly that women had accused a presidential candidate of sexual assault. Now that's news on any level. I mean you can't argue that that's not news.
~ Megyn Kelly
These women [abused by Donald Trump] certainly do have seen the statute of limitations expire. But if he attacks these women, they can allege defamation of their own .
~ Megyn Kelly