Women Quotes · Page 209

Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

— Bill Bailey

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

— Barbara Cartland

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector,…

— Robin Tunney

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

— Audre Lorde

“Oh, how hard it is to understand the hearts of girls and women. When they are not the most timid of creatures,…

— Jules Verne

“If you think getting old is tough for men, let me tell you, it’s no picnic for women. Once your tits fall,…

— Stephen King

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the…

— B. B. King

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't think there's anything wrong with the word 'curvy' or 'plus-size' because there are women who identify as that, and I'm…

— Barbie Ferreira

The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine…

— Deborah Tannen

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information…

— Brianna Wu

Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women to know their story…

— Jenny Shipley

“That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience…

— Tina Fey

“Women receive messages from childhood that they may be rewarded and protected for maintaining a childlike comportment such as being demure, obedient,…

— Bryant McGill

“Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged…

— Sonya Renee Taylor

“I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone,…

— Charles Bukowski

“We (women) are a powerful force, but it is not our fists that propel us, it is our minds and wiles.”

— Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

— Heather Cox Richardson

We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and…

— Trudie Styler

Lots of women rather stay single because they're tired of giving their everything and end up with nothing.

— Anonymous

Women of my generation aren't becoming more conservative as we get older. On the contrary, we're less concerned about what people think.

— Susanna Reid

I think it's really important that women understand that they don't have to be ashamed to make changes to their body.

— Shanna Moakler

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“I want to glide in a world of beauty,’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.”

— James Lusarde

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's…

— Cathleen Schine

With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

— Yani Tseng

The supply of medicines for our servicemen and women should not be dependent on the decisions of the Chinese Government.

— Abigail Spanberger

If I had it in my power to introduce a ban on women driving cars and to withdraw all their licences, I…

— Andrey Arshavin

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to…

— George Eliot

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

— Dee Dee Myers

The best thing #MeToo did was say women's experiences matter. You can't blame us for what happens to us anymore.

— Amanda Knox

Alison Pill is the unsung hero of 'Three Tall Women' to me. She's extraordinary in this part, and she makes it look…

— Joe Mantello

“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ”

— Alice Kahn

First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.

— Vito Fossella

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

— Sridevi

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what…

— Barbara Stanwyck

Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.

— Don Lemon

My mother always had flowers at home, they were always there. In the garden, on the table, fresh flowers. I think I…

— Rosalia

I'm going to lead a revolution for working people in America. This includes all workers: white, black and brown, men and women,…

— Tim Ryan