Women Quotes · Page 483

I thought Keith Raniere was the greatest, wisest, most brilliant man on Earth. I had no idea what was going on with…

— Sarah Edmondson

“Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is…

— G.K. Chesterton

The serious problems facing the world... will only be solved if women have a seat at the table and are listened to…

— Jenny Shipley

“Women, Elena believed, appealed to men in direct proportion to their vacuousness. The male had an overwhelming compulsion to teach, to mold…

— Joyce Haber

I've got two older sisters, which I think was the best thing but also the worst thing. They dressed me up like…

— Milo Ventimiglia

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are…

— Andrea Dworkin

Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?'…

— Sheila Heti

“Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to…

— Abhijit Naskar

I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember…

— Elaine Welteroth

The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great…

— Maxine Waters

“It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when…

— Plutarch

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were…

— Miriam Shor

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended…

— Michelle Yeoh

'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political…

— Yasmine Hamdan

As breadwinners, providers, mentors, counselors, parents, grandmothers, teachers, doctors, nurses, and more, Black women and their invaluable contributions to Georgia and our…

— Raphael Warnock

I do feel that historically having gendered categories has helped from keeping women actors from a lot of erasure because I think…

— Lily Gladstone

We know that when women have access to voluntary family planning services, supplies and information, society sees enormous gains in each of…

— Jenny Shipley

I don't want to play the girlfriend who's there because she's the girlfriend. And. That's. Her. Job. I want to play women…

— Angourie Rice

“I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly--…

— Thomas Hardy

“A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass,…

— H.L. Mencken

“Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... it's isn't just a miscarriage of justice;…

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

“It's your world, but I make my way in it. At fifteen, no, I couldn't stand up to you. The age of…

— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said…

— Neil Gaiman

My subject has always been women. And I don't want to sound, like, preposterously idealistic, but I would like, in my lifetime,…

— Laurie Simmons

Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it's an earthquake - when we see these great fatal…

— Martin Luther King III

“I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is…

— Susan Sarandon

I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky…

— Karen Finerman

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

'Three Tall Women' is kind of fascinating. I had never seen it itself, and I imagine the audience will find it very…

— Laurie Metcalf

In India, people tend to get categorised by their job or caste or colour. But in Kamathipura, despite their horrid living, it…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

“Mortals treat women the way they do because that’s what they have done for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. No one has…

— Theresa Van Spankeren

When a man declares to you: "I am sure of my wife," it means that he is sure of his wife. But…

— Francis de Croisset

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends…

— Quentin Bryce

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started…

— Kathleen Turner

At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23 I raised money for Guatemalan women's…

— Michael Shellenberger

“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,…

— Roman Payne

“The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world…

— Abhijit Naskar

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own…

— Roger Rosenblatt

All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every…

— Grant Morrison

“One of the most dangerous classes in the world,' said he, 'is the drifting and friendless woman. She is the most harmless…

— Arthur Conan Doyle