Quotes About Women

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.

We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive.

We need to have a president that's going to pledge, as I have - I'm going to make America the number-one manufacturer so working men and women can have good paying jobs again in America.

It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.