Quotes About Women

For years we've been campaigning against the rule that women can't vote. That's the barrier. Once it's broken down, people will see further concessions as mere technicalities. It will be relatively easy to get the voting age lowered and other restrictions eased.

People change'. Weak women change to please men, Lili thought.

After a while, two teenage boys served a meal of stew with bread. Abdul thought the boys had probably done the cooking themselves. He suspected that the chewy meat was camel, but he did not ask. Afterward the boys cleaned up in a perfunctory way, leaving scraps on the ground. Men without women were slobs everywhere, Abdul thought.

You want a grand passion, a lifelong romance, but those exist only in poems," Genevieve said. "In real life we women settle for what we can get.

dislikes the work of governing, but I'm fascinated by it." Aldred put in: "Women sometimes do it well. King Alfred of England had a daughter called Ethelfled

Pour l'heure, il n'était pas à côté d'elle mais un peu plus loin dans la foule, et bavardait avec Bessie la Cloche, la fille du propriétaire de l'auberge, une fille de petite taille avec des courbes là où il en fallait et un sourire que les hommes trouvaient aguichant et les femmes fabriqué.

The war is the reason for that. Before, no woman ever rose above the level of secretary-assistant in MI6. We didn't have analytical minds, you see. We were more suited to homemaking and child-rearing. But since war broke out, women's brains have undergone a remarkable change, and we have become capable of work that previously could only be accomplished by the masculine mentality.

dark-skinned Algerian troops marching across the city from one railway station to another. Their officers rode mules and wore bright red cloaks. As they passed, women gave them flowers and fruit, and café proprietors brought them cold drinks. When

In Paris the citizens had slaughtered defenseless women and children in the thousands. How could God permit it? And then, to make it worse, the Pope had sent a letter of congratulation to the king of France. That could not be God's will. Hard though it was to believe, the Pope had done wrong.

kept in the laboratory for varying periods before being implanted in the women's wombs." Why did this happen to me? Why couldn't I be like everyone else? "They're closing the flight, I have to go." "I want to see you. I'll

Men and women have different dreams.' She lifted her head, looked at him and touched his face. 'And when you put them together, you have a life.' she kissed his mouth

Jesus was raised by an extraordinary mother who must have had enormous influence on his attitudes toward women.

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Guinevere is not the Morgan type, where she's sultry and she knows she has this incredible female energy that she can use and utilize, and she's not necessarily used to having this power over men.

I love and adore men. I think their energy is so sexy, and fabulous, and active. But the imbalance in the male and female power is deadly. It is literally taking us to extinction.

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.