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Quotes About Women

By undercutting fundamentalism and intolerance, education would curtail violence and war. By empowering women, it would curb poverty and the population explosion.
~ John Brockman
women followed him and supported him out of their own means. It was a woman who washed his feet with her tears, and a woman who anointed his body to be buried. Women, therefore are highly favored, and show
~ John Bunyan
2. God commanded both male and female to have dominion (v. 27). Both men and women have been given the ability and authority to lead. Leadership is not gender specific.
~ John C. Maxwell
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. —Bernard Montgomery
~ John C. Maxwell
The sea that morning was iridescent and dark. My wife and my sister were swimming--Diana and Helen--and I saw their uncovered heads, black and gold in the dark water. I saw them come out and I saw that they were naked, unshy, beautiful, and full of grace, and I watched the naked women walk out of the sea.
~ John Cheever
It is women's fatal susceptibility to passionate touch that hypnotises them into by far the greater number of their disasters; for under this touch-hypnosis the present transforms itself into the eternal, and their grand sex-defence, their consciousness of continuity, their awareness of the future as an integral portion of the present, is shattered and broken up.
~ John Cowper Powys
Mars and Venus? Nope. The only problem between the genders is that we each have the others needs and wants backwards. Men want to be needed, and women need to be wanted. Not the other way around. It's that simple!
~ Unknown
A women has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
~ Unknown
My mother is more than a hero, more than a fearless women, more than a best friend, she's my life. I love her with all my heart and I will never ask for a better mother.
~ Unknown
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold
~ Ogden Nash
I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
~ Joan Cusack
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~ Oscar Wilde
This is for the women that have to play the role of a Mother and a Father to their children, Happy Fathers Day!
~ Unknown
I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.
~ Unknown
Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor
~ Jane Austen
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
~ Gloria Steinem
Girls are afraid to be alone, women revel in it, using it as a time for personal growth.
~ Unknown
Periods are ridiculous girls shouldnt be punished for not getting pregnant.
~ Unknown
When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
~ Melinda Gates
I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
~ Vera Wang
Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
~ Caroline Knapp
I think women need to be kinder to other women. I think once we realize that, shoulder to shoulder, walking in the same direction, we're the greatest force of nature…our destiny can change.
~ Lynn Tilton
How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
~ Alfred de Musset