All Quotes

If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.
‐‐ Ann Cotton

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.
‐‐ Odette Annable

If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.
‐‐ Elizabeth Meriwether

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
‐‐ Robin Williams

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
‐‐ Nancy Friday

If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?
‐‐ Sendhil Mullainathan

If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
‐‐ Fatema Mernissi

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
‐‐ Sojourner Truth

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.
‐‐ Anita Borg

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.
‐‐ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
‐‐ Victoria Woodhull

If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.
‐‐ Julie Delpy

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.
‐‐ Erin McKean

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
‐‐ Alfred Korzybski

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
‐‐ Israel Horovitz

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
‐‐ Charles E. Wilson

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
‐‐ Darrell Royal

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
‐‐ James A. Garfield

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
‐‐ Lloyd Alexander

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
‐‐ Irvin S. Cobb

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
‐‐ Judith Martin

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.
‐‐ James D. Watson

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.
‐‐ John W. Thompson

If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
‐‐ Thomas Keating

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
‐‐ Michael Jordan

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
‐‐ Brendan Behan

If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise express, that offers a much more insightful analysis of why documentaries - even of the fly-on-the-wall variety - are powerful.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.
‐‐ Robert Smith

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.
‐‐ AnnaSophia Robb

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
‐‐ Ted Danson

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.
‐‐ Bryan Callen

If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
‐‐ Nate Berkus