Quotes About Women

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

New ideas can come from older people, too," I said. "Maybe," said Jennie. "But they'd be different new ideas than the ones from people who are up on the latest theory." "I wouldn't assume these women are uninformed," said Charlotte. "Who's more wide awake than Doris?" said Adrian. "There is nothing old and outdated with either one," said Belinda. "Well, maybe not to you," said Jennie.

Women", he used to say, "are like a book. You being with the title page. If that is not interesting, then you will not desire to read further. In fact, interesting is better than beautiful. A beautiful title page may attract your attention, but if it's not interesting, you will not continue with it.

Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn't matter if you're a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you're Right, the Left is gonna hate.

She understands that wealthy women of a particular age, after a lifetime of bartering their beauty, do not know any other way of interacting with men.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

was the chance of a lifetime. I had the opportunity, for once, to show white women what it feels like to have one of your most eligible bachelors snatched off the market right before your very eyes. Then maybe they'd tell two friends. And so on and so on and so on, until we got our men back. Well, that was a long shot, but it would certainly feel good.

No longer stereotypes, these screen women had become complicated. This combination of sensuality, independence and playfulness, made them fascinating to watch and completely modern.

France has the largest, most lucrative cinema in Europe, making it the second most successful cinema in the Western world (a distant second, monetarily), and in terms of roles for women, it's unquestionably in the lead. When a French actress comes to America, she leaves a cinema interested in exploring her essence in favor of one that's not interested in anything about her, that's even hostile to the notion of making movies about women at all.

THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN provided by French cinema don't need to be exaggerated. The number of films either starring or dealing primarily with women characters may be impressive, but it represents no unmanageable deluge. If you lived in France, you could keep abreast of everything by going to the movies once or twice a week.

After the Code, crime films, adventures, gangster films, war movies, and comedies all continued to get produced, with some adjustments. But the social dramas that took a woman's point of view, that remained on the woman's side from start to finish, requiring of her no last-minute conversion, apology, or reversion to happy subservience, all but disappeared. One can infer the intent of censorship by seeing what exactly got censored.

I asked her where the posters in his room came from. She told me she had found some magazines in the forest at a spot where some soldiers had camped and had brought them home. This was shortly before the sexual murders started. I believe those pin-ups were the catalyst that triggered the fantasy that had been brewing inside Zikode since his childhood. His mother had unwittingly lit the tinder which had erupted into a blaze and cost many women their lives.

He unleashed his sexual frustrations on these women, but they also provided a means of venting his Oedipal anger at the mother figures for rejecting him, so he strangled the life out of them.

He definitely had problems in his relations with women, which probably stemmed from a bad mother-son relationship and possibly an Oedipal triangle.

The killer lived in the first room. My eyes immediately searched for collateral evidence. There were two women's watches lying on the ground next to his mattress. There was a heap of female clothing and umbrellas in the room and some ligatures were also lying around. It seemed like Aladdin's cave to me.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

Miguel de Cervantes

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.