Quotes About Women

There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan.

I read the collected works of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and made a list of everything the old Baptist preacher had ever condemned as immoral or untoward. The subjects of his condemnation ranged from college-age women going braless to dogs wearing clothes to Beyonce.

Everyone always wants women to fight and it's a real shame that it undoes all the good that 'Loose Women' does. While we laugh and talk about silly subjects, we also talk about really important subjects.

When I signed 'Guide,' my colleagues in the industry said that I was doing a big mistake. They even said that this might be my last film because that was the phase when actresses in the industry were portrayed as submissive women. We used to do love stories or family dramas where women were ideal in every role.

People want women to be so submissive when we got a voice of our own, and we can do everything these dudes can do.

I think, especially growing up in the South, we are taught that women are supposed to be soft, gentle and kind of just goes along with everything and is submissive.

I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.

The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

Harassment doesn't just happen to 'social observers' and 'comedians' - women who express themselves publicly are reliably verbally attacked online and in person, not for their substance but for their form.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

You know, women are treated like objects. But they have substance. They are not just an item number to be looked at - they have more to them than that.

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

I'd love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor.

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.

I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things - seeing coffee mornings, women talking... that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary, and he was talking about how he was around a lot of women as a child, listening to all that stuff.

I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support.

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.

Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

Women are the foundation of a society, but remember who laid them!

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.