Quotes on Women

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

Author: Richard Adams

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Author: Scott Adams

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Author: Jane Addams

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

Author: Freda Adler

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.

Author: Malin Akerman

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Author: Louisa Alcott

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Author: Shana Alexander

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Author: Ayaan Ali

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

Author: Debbie Allen

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

Author: Florence Allen

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

Author: Joan Allen

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Author: Isabel Allende

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

Author: GG Allin

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Author: Dorothy Allison

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Author: B. Ambedkar

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Author: Henri Amiel

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

Author: Elena Anaya

I think women are excellent social critics.

Author: Laurie Anderson

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

Author: Loni Anderson

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Author: Barbara Angelis

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

Author: Francesca Annis

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

Author: Adam Ant

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Author: Susan Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Author: Susan Anthony

When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.

Author: Susan Anton

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Author: Minna Antrim

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.

Author: Joan Ark

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Author: Joan Armatrading

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

Author: Bea Arthur

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Author: Mary Ash

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

Author: Mary Astell

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Author: Mary Astell

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

Author: Mary Astell

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Author: Jane Austen

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

Author: Jim Bakker

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Author: Lucille Ball

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Author: Honore Balzac

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

Author: Russell Banks

I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.

Author: Tyra Banks

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

Author: Theda Bara

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Author: Christine Baranski

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

Author: Adrienne Barbeau

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

Author: Henri Barbusse

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

Author: Roseanne Barr

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Author: Roseanne Barr

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Author: Gina Barreca

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

Author: Majel Barrett

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.

Author: Birch Bayh

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Author: Miriam Beard

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Author: Simone Beauvoir

My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

Author: Victoria Beckham

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

Author: Kate Beckinsale

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

Author: Geoffrey Beene

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Author: Max Beerbohm

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

Author: Kristen Bell

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

Author: Kristen Bell

There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.

Author: Kristen Bell

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Author: Saul Bellow

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Author: Ruth Benedict

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

Author: Pope Benedict XVI

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.

Author: Annette Bening

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

Author: Candice Bergen

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Author: Candice Bergen

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

Author: Candice Bergen

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

Author: Michael Bergin

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

Author: Sandra Bernhard

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

Author: Sandra Bernhard

In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

Author: Halle Berry

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

Author: Victoria Billings

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Author: John Blackie

Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.

Author: Bill Blass

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Author: Bill Blass

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

Author: Orlando Bloom

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Author: W. Bois

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

Author: Emma Bonino

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

Author: Emma Bonino

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

Author: Emma Bonino

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

Author: Jan Bont

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Author: Pat Boone

None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.

Author: Anita Borg

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

Author: Caprice Bourret

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

Author: Barbara Boxer

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

Author: Barbara Boxer

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

Author: Barbara Boxer

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

Author: Lara Boyle

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

Author: Lara Boyle

My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?

Author: Eric Braeden

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

Author: Carol Braun

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

Author: Carol Braun

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

Author: Donna Brazile

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

Author: John Bright

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

Author: Susie Bright

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

Author: Chris Brown

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

Author: Louise Brown

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

Author: Louise Brown

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

Author: Pat Brown

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Author: Rita Brown

Cancers of all types among women are increasing.

Author: Gro Brundtland

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology.

Author: Gro Brundtland

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Author: Charlotte Bunch

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Author: Charlotte Bunch

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Author: Charlotte Bunch

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

Author: Charlotte Bunch

A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.

Author: Delta Burke

I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.

Author: Delta Burke

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

Author: Barbara Bush

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Author: Barbara Bush

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Author: George Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Author: Laura Bush

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.

Author: Geezer Butler

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

Author: Yancy Butler

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

Author: Yancy Butler

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

Author: Yancy Butler

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

Author: Rose Byrne

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Author: Jane Campion

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Author: Jane Campion

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Author: Jane Campion

I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.

Author: Blu Cantrell

I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

Author: Blu Cantrell

You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.

Author: Drew Carey

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

Author: George Carey

I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.

Author: George Carey

The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

Author: Vanessa Carlton

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

Author: Liz Carpenter

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Author: Jimmy Carter

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Author: Jimmy Carter

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Author: Nick Carter

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Author: Robert Casey

Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.

Author: Robert Casey

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

Author: Robert Casey

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Author: Carrie Catt

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

Author: Kim Cattrall

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

Author: Kim Cattrall

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer