Woman Quotes

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

~ Brendan Behan

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

~ George Jean Nathan

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

~ Tammy Wynette

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

~ Sloane Crosley

Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.

~ Charles J. Shields

I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

~ Kimora Lee Simmons

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

~ Jillian Rose Banks

With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

~ Wilt Chamberlain

I've always loved Jennifer Lopez, and I think, as an entertainer, she is a great example of a strong woman that is also very levelheaded and cool and produces her own content.

~ Christina Milian

Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.

~ Blake Lively

Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.

~ John Lasseter

I really like women who get emotional about babies and puppies. I've met some incredibly cool women who are tough, but the woman you marry should have a really soft side.

~ Chris Evans

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

~ Twinkle Khanna

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

~ Kim Gordon

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

~ Ann Hood

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

~ William Godwin

Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.

~ Patti Hansen

As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.

~ Venus Williams

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

~ Sally Ride

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

~ Sally Ride

Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

~ Adam Mansbach

We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine.

~ Debi Mazar

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

~ Beth Henley

The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.

~ Sofia Vergara

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

~ Mao Zedong

A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness and resiliency as apparent as a superhero-type female character or a warrior or soldier type. It's all about the story, the character, and the course of events in that piece of work and how that character is presented.

~ Katherine Mcnamara

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

~ Susan B. Anthony

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

~ Walter Wager

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

~ Donatella Versace

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

~ Christopher Hampton

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

~ George Matthew Adams

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

~ Tom Wolfe

A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

~ Elfriede Jelinek

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

~ Thomas Aquinas

I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences between being a man versus being a woman in science and business.

~ Vivienne Ming

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

~ Charles Stanley

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

~ Malala Yousafzai