--- title: "9 Half Women Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 9 Half Women quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Half Women sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae3/gloria-steinem-277_quote_an-audience-is-half-women-and-half-men-w_1581035.jpg" --- > [“an audience is half women and half men, women worry about the reaction of the men around them. But”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/an-audience-is-half-women-and-half-men-women-worry-about-the-reaction/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae3/gloria-steinem-277_quote_an-audience-is-half-women-and-half-men-w_1581035.jpg) > [Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-giraudoux/men-should-only-believe-half-of-what-women-say-but-which-half/) [Jean Giraudoux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-giraudoux/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/944/jean-giraudoux-7998_believe_men-should-only-believe-half-of-what-wom_548842.jpg) > [Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-giraudoux/half-the-human-race-can-change-its-name-and-sometimes-its-nation/) [Jean Giraudoux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-giraudoux/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/jean-giraudoux-7998_half_half-the-human-race-can-change-its-name_1474629.jpg) > [One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phyllis-schlafly/one-solution-might-be-to-impose-the-duty-on-admissions-officers-to/) [Phyllis Schlafly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phyllis-schlafly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d76/phyllis-schlafly-3818_admission_one-solution-might-be-to-impose-the-duty_1591482.jpg) > [Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phyllis-schlafly/suppose-the-pay-gap-between-men-and-women-were-magically-eliminated/) [Phyllis Schlafly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phyllis-schlafly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6de/phyllis-schlafly-3818_feminism_suppose-the-pay-gap-between-men-and-wome_171705.jpg) > [There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-brooks/there-s-67-percent-of-women-that-are-in-this-plus-size-world-that-we/) [Danielle Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c9/danielle-brooks-14102_dressings_there-s-67-percent-of-women-that-are-in_664492.jpg) > [What you don't want is just to say, 'All showrunners need to be half women and half men,' because then, for men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-schmidt-hissrich/what-you-don-t-want-is-just-to-say-all-showrunners-need-to-be-half/) [Lauren Schmidt Hissrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-schmidt-hissrich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04a/lauren-schmidt-hissrich-29761_men_what-you-don-t-want-is-just-to-say-all-s_2854310.jpg) > [There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gina-prince-bythewood/there-s-a-great-deal-of-women-in-film-school-i-was-not-the-only-woman/) [Gina Prince-Bythewood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gina-prince-bythewood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49d/gina-prince-bythewood-12054_class_there-s-a-great-deal-of-women-in-film-sc_2188356.jpg) > [We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/faye-wattleton/we-ve-consistently-seen-since-the-late-1990s-that-more-than-half-of/) [Faye Wattleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/faye-wattleton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72f/faye-wattleton-20860_abortion_we-ve-consistently-seen-since-the-late-1_558486.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/half-women/#itemlist", "name": "Half Women Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“an audience is half women and half men, women worry about the reaction of the men around them. 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