Quotes About Women

Women get possessive and cranky if they try to cruise with the Tooz.

Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.

The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

I started to have these ideas for films. They were like running images in my head. But I didn't think I could be a director. I just literally didn't think it was a possibility. Then I started to suddenly see films of women.

I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.

A lot of people had a misconception that I would be the perfect poster child for Islam. So I got a lot of Instagram comments like, 'Oh, you don't have your neck covered, you're not a Muslim!' My thing is, stop judging women, especially if you're a man, because you don't know the responsibility that comes with wearing a hijab.

Hate Story' is about power of women and I feel her bare back poster with a gun justifies it.

I talk about postpartum depression and all these things I don't hear a lot of women talking about on TV.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

Every day I hear from women across the country who have incredible stories but are overwhelmed with their lives, asking me for advice on everything from potty training to organization. None have asked for dancing advice, however.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

It was a beauty contest in the '80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.

In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.

I think there is a role for us as women to contribute to the future of technology.

I think we have some amazing leaders. But then we have some leaders who turn a blind eye to things that contribute negatively to a really difficult culture for women.

I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.