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Quotes About Women

As mulheres são muito extensas, a gente viaja-lhes, a gente sempre se perde.
~ Mia Couto
Lembra-se do tempo em que eu passava tardes e tardes costurando? - Lembro-me, mãe. Eram tantas filhas, tantas roupas! - A maior parte das vezes, eu só fingia que costurava. - Fingia? Fingia para quê? Os homens não gostam que as mulheres pensem em silêncio. Nascem-lhes nervosas suspeitas. - Enquanto ia costurando, o seu pai não imaginava que eu estava pensando. Minha cabeça viajava por todo o lado.
~ Mia Couto
Mulheres são como ilhas: sempre longe, mas ofuscando todo o mar em redor
~ Mia Couto
A vida é um colar. Eu dou o fio, as mulheres dão as missangas.
~ Mia Couto
A redondura das ilhas, dizia, é o mar que faz. A beleza dessa menina, meu sobrinho, é você que lhe põe. As mulheres são muito extensas, a gente viaja-lhes, a gente sempre se perde.
~ Mia Couto
Há mulheres que procuram um homem que lhes abra o mundo. Outras buscam um que as tire do mundo. A maior parte, porém, acaba se unindo a alguém que lhes tira o mundo.
~ Mia Couto
Love, much akin to life, begins and ends with the heart. ...And the women? They're smoking!
~ Unknown
women have emotional needs, men have egotistical needs.
~ Michael Baisden
Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.
~ Unknown
This link was not coincidental: the movement to create university-level courses for women, still barred from the universities, was an integral part of the "social-pedagogical" movement that intensified in the late nineteenth century to create a "free" (vol'nyi) university outside state control, independent of state subsidies, open to both sexes, and free of restrictions by nationality and estate.
~ Unknown
The beauty industry does nothing but proclaim that women are never good enough and must always be changing their image. Why? Because that's how the owners of the beauty industry make higher profits. They don't care about women. They care about profit. They're delighted to make women neurotic and depressed about their appearance if it generates more dollars for their own bank accounts. What kind of morality is that? What kind of society is that? What kind of beauty is that?
~ Unknown
There were only two sorts of women so perfervid in their devotions: madwomen and saints, nor were the two species entirely distinct.
~ Michael Flynn
Overweight women were randomized to eat calorie-restricted weight-loss diets with or without a teaspoon of added cumin a day (half a teaspoon at both lunch and dinner). Over the three-month study, those in the cumin group lost about four more pounds and nearly an extra inch off their waists, in addition to significantly dropping their triglycerides and cholesterol.2727 Since cumin can be purchased in bulk for less than a dollar an ounce, a teaspoon would cost less than ten cents a day.
~ Michael Greger
Women with the highest saturated fat intake had a 60–70 percent greater chance of cognitive deterioration over time. Women with the lowest saturated fat intake had the brain function, on average, of women six years younger.
~ Michael Greger
Fifty overweight women aged eighteen through twenty-three were asked to drink, over and above their regular water intakes, two cups of water three times a day a half hour before meals without otherwise changing their diets or physical activity. They lost an average of three pounds in eight weeks.
~ Michael Greger
percent of women in their forties already have breast cancers growing within their bodies that may be simply too small to be detected by mammograms.11 That's why you can't just wait until diagnosis to start eating and living healthier. You should start tonight. RISK FACTORS FOR BREAST CANCER The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is considered one of the world's leading authorities on diet and cancer.
~ Michael Greger
One of the diseases antioxidant-rich foods may help prevent is stroke. Swedish researchers followed more than thirty thousand older women over a period of a dozen years and found that those who ate the most antioxidant-rich foods had the lowest stroke risk.42 Similar findings were reported in a younger cohort of men and women in Italy.43 As with lung disease,44 antioxidant supplements don't appear to help.45 Mother Nature's powers cannot be stuffed into a pill.
~ Michael Greger
The women whose mushroom consumption averaged just about one-half a mushroom or more per day had 64 percent lower odds of breast cancer compared with women who didn't eat mushrooms at all. Eating mushrooms and sipping at least half a tea bag's worth of green tea each day was associated with nearly 90 percent lower breast cancer odds.150
~ Michael Greger
In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.
~ Michael Kinsley
Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.
~ Michael Kors
As a senior, Donald drew notice for bringing women to campus and showing them around. "They were beautiful, gorgeous women, dressed out of Saks Fifth Avenue," said classmate George White. Trump was never shy about judging a girl's appearance, pronouncing one of White's visitors a "dog.
~ Unknown
La petite mort - that's what the French called orgasm. They believed that semen is sort of concentrated blood so that each time a man came he shortened his life a little by spilling blood that couldn't be replenished." "And women?" "Then, as now, men didn't much concern themselves with how women felt.
~ Unknown
I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women.
~ Unknown
Take away the idea of dark times and ruin and you begin to hear other voices. Women were not always silent, or without the power to make choices – we may just have been listening in the wrong places;
~ Unknown