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Quotes About Women

Although I have a lot of close female friends in my life, my number one is still my mom. Without her, I wouldn't have the values that I have and see the world the way that I do today. She taught me how to appreciate and respect women. She taught me chivalry and how to love a woman and respect their feelings and emotions.
~ Shemar Moore
In reality, Japanese women face many societal barriers to equality. Of course, the barriers that I'll now describe also exist in countries other than Japan. But those barriers are stronger—and the gender gap in health, education, and participation in the workforce and in politics is greater—in Japan than in any other rich industrialized nation except South Korea.
~ Jared Diamond
What do women look for when selecting a service station? Right, clean rest rooms.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
You can talk of things so much that they end up materializing in your life: simulation, seduction, reversibility, indifference. Gradually, life comes to resemble a montage of all these things, in a floating circulation of women, concepts, dreams and journeys. In this way, writing ends up preceding life, determining it. And life ends up conforming to a sign which was initially quite cavalier. This is no doubt why so many are afraid to write.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Thought can no longer keep itself in a critical equilibrium. It has to be spread eagled between violent nostalgia and violent anticipation. Of course we should dream of all women. There isn't one of them who wouldn't be offended if a man didn't dream of all of them through her.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Jacques' life was like the rooms of Montmartre women that are never cleaned because they get up at four o'clock and slip a coat over their nightgown to go downstairs and eat.
~ Jean Cocteau
But as more memories built up, crowding and enlarging the storage capacity of their brain, changes came harder. There was no more room for new ideas that would be added to their memory bank, their heads were already too large. Women had difficulty giving birth; they couldn't afford new knowledge that would enlarge their heads even more.
~ Jean M. Auel
the leaders arranged themselves near the mouth of the cave. They waited quietly for the attention of the assembled clans. The silence spread out like the ripples of a stone cast in a pond as the presence of the leaders was made known. Men moved quickly into positions defined by clan and personal rank. The women dropped their work, signaled suddenly well-behaved children, and silently followed suit. The Bear Ceremony was about to begin.
~ Jean M. Auel
En ocasiones las mujeres que no son perfectas resultan más interesantes; han hecho más o han aprendido algo.
~ Jean M. Auel
watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart — all complete.
~ Jean Rhys
I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.
~ Jean Rhys
Il y a une noblesse dans le réalisme à laquelle l'esprit des plus nobles femmes ne parvient jamais. Le réel ne les incline point.
~ Unknown
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Soldiers and women. That's how the world is. Any other role is temporary. Any other role is a gesture.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I noticed that women have a private language. A language not dependent on the constructions of men but structured by signs and expressions, and that uses ordinary words as code-words meaning something other.
~ Jeanette Winterson
With only our imaginations . . . we can't remember what it is about women that can turn a man through passion into something holy.
~ Jeanette Winterson
And I thought about women. All these books, and how long had it taken for women to write their share, and why were their still so few women poets and novelists, and even fewer who were considered to be important?
~ Jeanette Winterson
The future of women is uncertain. We don't breed in the womb any more, and if we aren't wanted for sex … But there will always be men. Women haven't gone for little boys. Women have a different approach. Surrounded by hunks, they look for 'the ugly man inside'. Thugs and gangsters, rapists and wife-beaters are making a comeback. They may smile like beach-boys, but they are pure shark. So this is the future. F is for Future.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. "Well, there you go", she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. "If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't", she said. "So many women make such a big deal out of these things. But you're stronger then that", she went back to her crossword puzzle.
~ Jeannette Walls
On our way back from the candy store, Brian and I liked to spy on the Green Lantern—a big dark green house with a sagging porch right near the highway. Mom said it was a cathouse, but I never saw any cats there, only women wearing bathing suits or short dresses who sat or lay out on the porch, waving at the cars that drove by. There were Christmas lights over the door all year round, and Mom said that was how you could tell it was a cathouse.
~ Jeannette Walls
She's the one married to Dad. That was her choice, I said. She needs to be firmer, lay down the law for Dad instead of getting hysterical all the time. What Dad needs is a strong woman. A caryatid wouldn't be strong enough for Dad. What's that? Pillars shaped like women, Lori said. The ones holding up those Greek temples with their heads. I was looking at a picture of some the other day, thinking, Those women have the second toughest job in the world.
~ Jeannette Walls
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre