Woman Quotes

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

~ Stephen Fry

It's quite a pure relationship, designer and muse. I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That's why you need that personal touch.

~ Jason Wu

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

~ Desiderius Erasmus

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

~ Maya Angelou

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

~ Wallace Stevens

There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.

~ Rupi Kaur

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

~ Lafcadio Hearn

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

~ Rita Rudner

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

~ Camille Paglia

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

~ Whitney Houston

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

~ Shirley Bassey

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

~ Douglas Coupland

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

~ William Congreve

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

~ Libba Bray

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

~ Alanis Morissette

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

~ Sherman Alexie

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

~ Gloria Swanson

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

~ Tina Louise

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

~ J. F. Powers

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

~ Lucy Stone

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

~ Margaret Thatcher

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

~ Betty Friedan

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

~ Evan Esar

Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids.

~ Sarah Drew

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

~ Marlene Dietrich

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

~ Angie Stone

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

~ Thelma Ritter

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

~ Jane Austen

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

~ Halle Berry

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

~ Jack Valenti

There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.

~ Lucretia Mott

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

~ Elizabeth Blackwell

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

~ Betty Friedan

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

~ Hernan Cortes

Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been - I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature, and thrive as a better, more confident person.

~ Chelsea Manning

If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.

~ John Fleming