Quotes About Women

Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

As Josephs and his colleagues point out, 'through its hierarchical ordering of two or more groups, a stereotype is essentially a statement about dominance or status.' When the stereotype of women's inferiority in maths is made salient, a woman doing a maths test is at risk of confirming her lower status in the hierarchy of numeracy.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

We don't marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our eyes and we see them as they really are, perhaps never to glimpse it again. How lovely she is, how unearthly lovely.

Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

the dormitory, it reminded me most of an anthill. Some women were already asleep after the long workday, but most were stirring about, some waiting for a turn at the toilets, others picking lice off themselves and their neighbors.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

I have found in most relationships with women it is best to remember their birthdays but forget their age.

She was classic Wyoming, that indiscriminate age between thirty and a hundred where the women find a comfort for themselves and just settle in.

everything to do with women is foolish and, therefore, absolutely essential.

Isaac, everything to do with women is foolish and, therefore, absolutely essential.

Napoleon had indeed said, "Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

The poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, said of women, "They ought to mind home, and be well fed and clothed, but not mixed in society. Well educated, too, in religion, but to read neither poetry nor politics—nothing but books of piety and cookery. Music, drawing, dancing, also a little gardening and ploughing now and then.

I imagine these men sitting in fashion control centers around the world thinking of new ways to torture women, new ways to make them wince twenty years from now when they look at old photographs of themselves.

Pero lo más innovador fue que la reina obtuvo del papa Clemente X el levantamiento de la prohibición a la presencia de las mujeres en los espectáculos artisticos. Sobre Cristina de Suecia.

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

On the up side, the fruit of her "blackness" is a feisty independence that makes its presence felt throughout the poem. She tends her own garden, has her own freedom, and makes her own choices. In a world geared toward the silencing of women's voices, her own voice speaks loud and clear.

Taking my mother's experiences seriously led to my exploring the militarisation of marriages. It made me alert to what feminist historians have been telling us now for four decades: pay attention to the feminised silences - not just silences due to oppression, but silence flowing from many women's belief that their wartime experiences don't "matter" - that they are merely private, trivial, apolitical. Men wage war; women simply "cope" with wartime. Coping does not make for exciting history.

Men bring evil into the world and breed it up for their sport the way they breed their hunting dogs. They change and spoil and destroy what is within their reach; but women go on, unchanging as the wind.

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.