I Am Woman Quotes

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that I'm, well, not only Queen of the Gods, I'm better than he is!

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.