The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I am not against the idea of looking sexy. But I don't like women being looked at as mere objects of sex. — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures. — Karen Handel Copy Share Image
The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of… — Ashleigh Murray Copy Share Image
The truth is, none of us is OK, not really. The best, most dear, most thoughtful and engaged and open and feminist… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
For generations, Black women have been at the very center of social change. Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women,… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
It's very difficult for a woman to just pop up in the studio system. But I think the same systemic issues that… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
In the 1880s, women were decades away from earning the right to vote. Few owned property - if they were even permitted… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Women want to attract a 'high-value' man. If that's the man you want to attract you have to be high value yourself. — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered… — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats. — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
I try to support all the women in my life. So absolutely, Aladdin tries to do that as well, and rightfully -… — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
I have come to know that in BJP married women get nervous when their husbands go near Modi, fearing that like him… — Mayawati Copy Share Image
I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs. — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Ancient Egyptian women had rights under the law. They could own land. Many were literate. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Lots of women in the folk scene tried to do just that, to sound like Joan, but it's really impossible. Her voice… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very… — Annabelle Wallis Copy Share Image
Films made by women belong to the history of cinema; it's just that we get erased pretty quickly. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than… — Saul David Copy Share Image
When I first came out about my breast cancer, I didn't want to talk about it, but I had to, because young… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
The difference between a woman on her period and a terrorist is that you can negotiate with a terrorist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe that young lesbian women need to see themselves on TV. They need to see the representation, especially young black lesbians. — Nafessa Williams Copy Share Image
We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
