Women Quotes

Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

My women are always victorious.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.

Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.

The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

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

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me.

Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.

I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.