Women Quotes · Page 272

There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.

— Asma Jahangir

“Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those…

— Annie Dillard

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

All my good friends, they want kids and have kids, and I totally understand that. But there's women who don't, and I…

— Gabby Windey

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes…

— Barbara Cartland

I love my mother, my wife, my sisters very much. I honour and respect them. Women are the keepers of the family.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

Women who want to work should be given the choice to do that. If you decide to work even after getting married,…

— Arjun Kapoor

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

— Gloria Steinem

I think it's a different kind of activism. Like, women shouldn't have to step into men's roles to be empowered. They should…

— Rain Dove

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what…

— Bette Davis

“She was decidedly attractive, he saw, but in an ill-natured, ungracious way. Because of his connection with Fitzgerald, Carstairs & Scott, Johnnie…

— Patrick Hamilton

Now that we're seeing that you can be a really masculine football player and a homosexual, you can be a really girly…

— Manila Luzon

'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them…

— Rochelle Aytes

Maybe men and women aren't from different planets as pop culture would have us believe. Maybe we live a lot closer to…

— Anonymous

The way I've always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that…

— Sasha Velour

“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces…

— Andrea Dworkin

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all…

— Eve Ensler

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and…

— Miranda July

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never…

— Helmut Lang

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by…

— Peter Zumthor

Yes, I do realize that men in sports media also face criticism and backlash, but the vitriol that is directed at women,…

— Jemele Hill

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with…

— Margaret Mead

“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs…

— Roman Payne

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

— Leila Slimani

Men and women shop very differently, and where women are open to edgy, conceptual looks, very, very few men are.

— Michael Bastian

The video game industry traditionally has been a very male-dominated field. You know, with the advent of the iPhone, the number of…

— Brianna Wu

The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of…

— Keren Woodward

I don't only wear men's clothing - I actually have more women's clothing than I do men's.

— Bretman Rock

For me, there's a lot of erasure of bisexuality. I think a lot of people - especially in women - they tend…

— Zelda Williams

I support Donald Trump, but I also support abortion and a women's right to choice, what to do with their body.

— Kendra Wilkinson

“Organized religion: where men write the rules, women follow them, and the children pay the price.”

— Brad Deep

“[I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest hearts may beat in girls only five…

— Michelle Markel

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

— Ezra Taft Benson

What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people…

— Chanakya

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used…

— Tina Fey

Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones,…

— Ronald Reagan

Most people don't know this, but I never wanted Man Repeller to be about me. It was titled that to identify a…

— Leandra Medine

A level of negativity around women working in men's sport is still present in the U.K., but I keep reminding myself that…

— Isa Guha

“Women are not just waiting to be filled up with resources-they're waiting to put their resources on the table to be able…

— Kavita Ramdya

Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

— Deborah Moggach