Quotes About Women

Janet Flanner made an interesting observation midway through the year [1947]: in Paris, stores frequented by women, the biggest selling goods were, unsurprisingly, ... But the second item they were ordering was prams, a biological vote of confidence in the future.

Women, intelligent or not, were rarely reasonable.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

His office led into a larger one in which two women of indeterminate age were attacking typewriters as though they were engaged in a race and the loser was to be executed the next morning.

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

I think all women have some sort of beauty in them.

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

I prefer the word "engagement." Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business.

Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

Everyone has known what it's like to see their dreams crumble. But these women...have found something more stable to hang onto. They're not content and fulfilled because circumstances turned out the way they hoped, but because of their faith in a God who is above circumstance.

her view of gender distinction was that men were a different breed from women, you deferred to them in some respects and recognized that they had special needs--cooked breakfast and somewhere to go and smoke.

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

Then as we passed down this Passage we were knocked against certain Women of the Town, who gave us Eye-language, since there were many Corners and Closets in Bedlam where they would stop and wait for Custom: indeed it was known as a sure Market for Lechers and Loiterers, for tho' they came in Single they went out by Pairs. This is a Showing-room for Whores, I said. And what better place for Lust, Sir Chris. replied, than among those whose Wits have fled?

It was a business that engaged a significant part of the nation; the wool was given to village women to comb and to spin before being sent to the weaver; to this day, an unmarried woman is known as a spinster.

The careers of nineteenth-century woman writers, then, make for an illuminating test case in the history of aggression — of attack, counterattack, and only too often, more or less pathetic surrender to self-serving male verdicts. They are illuminating, too, because it is virtually impossible to disentangle the constructive from the destructive elements in the progress of Victorian women in the literary profession.