Quotes About Women

Of the 850 million lacking basic literacy, the UN estimated that two-thirds were women. This had a terrible carryover effect, as it's typically the women who are rearing the family's children. If the mother is educated, it is much more likely that education will be passed on to the next generation.

Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.

Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?

No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Women, music, beer, and pie. Rurik, you're just an all-American guy.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

There are reports on the news tonight that members of the Taliban feel persecuted and fear their own safety. So now they know what it is like to feel like a woman in their country.

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

I hate hearing about pretty women being upset...bad days is for ugly hoes you ask me.

But the most important thing to admit is this: although, on the one hand, lying is often a trait of character, it is, on the other hand, in women who would not otherwise be liars, a natural defense, at first spontaneous and then gradually more organized, against that sudden danger which is capable of destroying anyone's life: love.