About Women Quotes

It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.