Women Quotes · Page 225

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

— Jami Floyd

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but…

— Anonymous

“I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or…

— David Bedrick

To women, Americans of color, and the citizens of the world, Donald Trump, if he is taken at his word, represents a…

— Bret Weinstein

Black women's hair is a complicated and skillful thing that you need to know in order to tackle it and make it…

— Paterson Joseph

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

— Nancy Pearcey

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

— Roxane Gay

The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic…

— Frederick Lenz

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the…

— Mika Brzezinski

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole…

— Jane Campion

I had the great good fortune of getting my Ph.D. in the very first year that universities were actively seeking women faculty.…

— Carol S. Dweck

“Eve's daughters are as flowers and none can ever say they are through unfolding. And what man can predict the consummate end…

— Elisabeth Elliot

We all want to see a world where a preventable and treatable disease no longer takes lives or prevents women and girls…

— Penny Mordaunt

What most impresses sportsmen and women who exist outside the cycling bubble is the weird paradox at the heart of road cycling:…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning…

— Beryl Markham

With trans people, I just think you can't help the way you are born, though. You know, it's DNA, it's genetics. I'm…

— Kathy Burke

I hate generalizing. But what I've seen, from what I've observed, fundraising's an issue for women candidates.

— Ronna McDaniel

“Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.”

— George W. Bush

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

— Anonymous

To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

— Cory Booker

“...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

— Sheila Rowbotham

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are…

— Donatella Versace

I would hate to think that among five women, one of 'em is gonna die because we go to socialized care.

— Louie Gohmert

I look at pageants as a really wonderful thing to women. I think it helps a lot of women. It gives them…

— Shanna Moakler

The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is…

— Bret Stephens

When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you…

— Eve Ensler

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a…

— Peter Lindbergh

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

— David Deida

In this industry there's this ridiculous connotation with women shows that's it's got to be difficult, and it's not true.

— Holly Marie Combs

Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.

— Dasha Zhukova

Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that…

— Tom Peters

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate…

— Frederick Lenz

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

— Bea Miller

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

— John Malkovich

If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not…

— James Stephens

As much as any woman of the twentieth century, Madam Walker paved the way for the profound social changes that altered women's…

— A'Lelia Bundles

Be the kind of WOMAN that when your feet hit the floor each morning The devil says OH CRAP, SHE'S UP.

— Byaombe Salome

Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are…

— Princess Nokia