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Quotes About Women

I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
~ Naftali Bennett
I have a lot of respect for everything my mom had to do. And she made sure I understood how to respect women in ways that some people don't. She opened my eyes.
~ Jason Sehorn
The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
~ Melanne Verveer
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.
~ Megan Abbott
I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.
~ Paula Pell
It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.
~ Jessica Raine
Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.
~ Peter Boyle
I like Strauss's operas because it's all women's voices; I like opera that's hysterical.
~ Ron Mael
Gamergate is a criminal operation to harass women.
~ Brianna Wu
The most desirable man in my opinion is Sidharth Shukla and among women, I think of myself as being desirable.
~ Shehnaaz Gill
There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.
~ Melissa McCarthy
I am an opinionated feminist. I can never say or do anything against women.
~ Bhumi Pednekar
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
~ Oscar Wilde
Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public...
~ Oscar Wilde
Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them.
~ Oscar Wilde
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce. They are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art.
~ Oscar Wilde
Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took lovers, it was merely to have some one with whom they could have scenes.
~ Oscar Wilde
She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
~ Oscar Wilde
If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married. You would be a set of unfortunate bachelors. Not, however, that that would alter you much.
~ Oscar Wilde
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
~ Oscar Wilde
strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us.  Men can be analysed, women . . . merely adored.
~ Oscar Wilde
Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.
~ Oscar Wilde
Marriage is a matter for common sense. But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay? No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
~ Oscar Wilde