Women Quotes · Page 208

Every day that goes by when we can save innocent and unborn lives and protect the health and safety of women is…

— Mike Parson

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my…

— Michaela Coel

For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.

— Cathleen Schine

“A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else." -Toyi Ward”

— Toyi Ward

I believe that the Trump-Pence ticket is the team that can turn this country around, improve the lives of Americans and Iowans…

— Kim Reynolds

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

— Chris O'Dowd

You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.

— Linda Sarsour

Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.

— Hazel Hawke

I didn't know that women go through a vocal change, which is called 'thickening'. Basically, it's like when your body gets ready…

— Lzzy Hale

There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about…

— Sophie Okonedo

“Can they supinely dream life away in the lap of pleasure, or in the languor of weariness, rather than assert their claim…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women…

— Allison Schroeder

You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group…

— Dolores O'Riordan

That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f…

— Andrea Jung

But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills…

— Dee Dee Myers

“Most prospects in life are marred by the shuffling worldly wisdom of men, who, forgetting that they cannot serve God and mammon,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Ample women do not plan such things. They lack the guile for conspiracies of the body.”

— Don DeLillo

I like the fact that Tess Holliday is comfortable in her own skin and loves herself. I think that's a hugely positive…

— Jameela Jamil

Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

— Matthew Desmond

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize…

— Hope Jahren

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

— Marina Warner

“With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not…

— Marcel Proust

“But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a…

— J.L. Paul

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

I feel so many times with clothing lines, they don't talk to women to see what they want.

— La La Anthony

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To this day, I have an open door policy. I seek out interns and young women and try to help them. Women…

— Gretchen Carlson

I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress…

— Ryan Murphy

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself

— Anonymous

Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

— Sex And The City

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt…

— Angela Merkel

Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to,…

— David Eddings

I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men,…

— Joe Wright

“They radiated that orgasm-free lifestyle so unique and universal among Seabrook women.”

— Holly Peterson

Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

— Caitlin Moran

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's…

— Havelock Ellis

I am part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe.

— Patrisse Cullors

Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love…

— Virginia Postrel