Woman Quotes

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

~ Marcelene Cox

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

~ August Strindberg

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

~ Alexander Smith

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

~ Andie Macdowell

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

~ Julie Burchill

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

~ L'wren Scott

For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.

~ Blythe Danner

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

~ Shelby Lynne

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

~ Ernestine Rose

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

~ Maria Mitchell

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.

~ Jennifer Weiner

I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.

~ Katha Pollitt

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

~ Ginni Rometty

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.

~ Gloria Steinem

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

~ Padmasree Warrior

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

~ Ann Oakley

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

~ Jason Derulo

I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.

~ Fantasia Barrino

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

~ Al Lewis

My mom is a wonderful woman. She's always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her.

~ Britney Spears

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.

~ Lisaraye Mccoy-Misick

At a show, I'll look out from the stage and see a woman with a pearl necklace next to a guy in a Grateful Dead T-shirt next to a young kid with his mom. It's fun to see them all together.

~ Hiromi Uehara

My mom is a huge woman of worth for me because she's been my idol my whole life. My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman... and she was never satisfied doing just one thing because... she probably just had too much energy.

~ Blake Lively

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

~ Gillian Jacobs

My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

~ Jason Isbell

My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.

~ Sherri Shepherd

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

~ Emma Bonino

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

~ Garry Shandling

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

~ Mitch Hedberg

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

~ Joyce Brothers

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

~ John Mayer

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.

~ Tina Fey

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

~ Steve Albini

If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

~ Michael Patrick King

Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.

~ Nancy Pickard

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

~ Clare Boothe Luce

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

~ Orison Swett Marden

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

~ Barbara Boxer