All Quotes

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
‐‐ Freda Adler

Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

Woman was God's second mistake.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
‐‐ Laura Marling

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.
‐‐ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Women always ask me how to get back in shape after having a baby. I always say, 'Know when's the right time for your workout and commit to doing it.'
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.
‐‐ Rob Schneider

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.
‐‐ Ayrton Senna

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
‐‐ Zoe Lister-Jones

Women always want the guy that other women want.
‐‐ Tucker Max

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.
‐‐ Jordana Brewster

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
‐‐ James Stephens

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.
‐‐ Mike Rogers

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
‐‐ Edmund White

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
‐‐ Grace Jones

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
‐‐ Alice Cary

Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.
‐‐ Frederica Mathewes-Green

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
‐‐ Sharon Gless

Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.
‐‐ Melanne Verveer

Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.
‐‐ Fred Hammond

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.
‐‐ Alicia Machado

Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
‐‐ Maggie Hassan

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.
‐‐ Donatella Versace

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
‐‐ Pam Grier

Women are always beautiful.
‐‐ Ville Valo

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
‐‐ Stendhal

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.
‐‐ Preneet Kaur

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
‐‐ May Sarton

Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.
‐‐ John Boyle O'Reilly

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
‐‐ Vidya Balan

Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
‐‐ Fatema Mernissi

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
‐‐ Patricia Ireland

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz

Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

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