Woman Quotes

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

~ Audre Lorde

A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies the doctrine and teachings of a perfect teacher, the Master. She is a noble example to all who know her.

~ Margaret D. Nadauld

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart. 'Wanna Say' is one of the few love songs I've ever done.

~ Kat Graham

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

~ Kat Graham

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

~ Marge Piercy

What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she's going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.

~ Gal Gadot

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.

~ Tina Turner

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are.

~ Jada Pinkett Smith

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

~ Evita Peron

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.

~ Shemar Moore

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

~ John Eldredge

All I can tell you is that I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

For my first fragrance, I wanted to capture the essence of a woman's strength and beauty.

~ Ivanka Trump

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

~ George Eliot

Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.

~ Stella Mccartney

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.

~ Marianne Faithfull

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

~ Little Richard

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.

~ Frans De Waal

The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.

~ Kelis

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

~ Wilkie Collins

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

~ Helena Bonham Carter

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

~ Katy Perry

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

~ Susan B. Anthony

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

~ Gary Johnson

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

~ Marsha Blackburn

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

~ Andrew Cuomo

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

~ Rachel Cusk

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

~ Pamela Anderson

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

~ Golda Meir

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

~ Sara Sheridan

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

~ Betty Buckley

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

~ Rashid Al-Ghannushi

Mrs. Palin is history in a dress. And her script is straight out of Hollywood - like those teen movies with the cliched ending featuring the female valedictorian delivering the speech of a lifetime projecting a bold and transformative future with an independent-minded woman in charge.

~ Andrew Breitbart

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

~ Casey Kasem