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Quotes About Women

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
~ Adam Levine
Women are attracted to demonstrations of masculinity.
~ Unknown
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
~ Honore de Balzac
Women are strong and they deal with stuff a man probably cannot fathom and I commend and respect and honor that.
~ Unknown
Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health.
~ Barack Obama
Women should earn equal pay for equal work.
~ Barack Obama
Women will sell they soul, just to buy some attention.
~ Wale
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women make up only 25 percent of the science, engineering and technology workforce... We are delighted to be working with NASA Ames to give Silicon Valley area girls a chance to explore and develop their potential in science at an age when many begin to drift away from their natural interest.
~ Sally Ride
As women, however, we need to look very closely at these philosophies and ask ourselves the hard-headed, critial question, What's in it for me? What does this spiritual system do for women? Of course, the gurus, teachers, and ascended masters will tell us that, even by asking such a question, we are merely continuing in our enslavement to the Lords of Mind; that it is simply another dodge of the ego as it resists dissoulution in the All.
~ Starhawk
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique
~ Minna Antrim
Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
~ Elliot Paul
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.
~ Ben Hecht
You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.
~ Charleszetta Waddles
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom
~ Mary Ritter Beard
Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone
~ Egyptian Proverb
It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves
~ Anna Garlin Spencer
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
~ Lucy Stone
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
~ Bob Geldof
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
~ Guy de Maupassant
By refusing to implement the womens contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining virtually every existing opportunity for women business owners to break into the the good ol boy network of federal contracting
~ Senator John Kerry
The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable, stated the Malleus Maleficarum.
~ Starhawk
The word Witch carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word Witch is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine.
~ Starhawk
Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bi...es like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.
~ Bill Gates