Woman Quotes

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

~ Sam Brownback

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

~ Josh Billings

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

~ Mel Gibson

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

~ Germaine Greer

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

~ Kathleen Turner

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

~ Tom Delay

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

~ Zaha Hadid

I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.

~ Kathryn Harrison

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

~ Betty Ford

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

~ Candice Bergen

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

~ Jack Kevorkian

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

~ Dane Cook

Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

~ Gary Bauer

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

~ Norma Shearer

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

~ Esai Morales

I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

~ Andrew Greeley

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

~ Lord Byron

I can be a romantic. The way to every woman's heart is through her stomach. Food is at the core of everything.

~ Paul Hollywood

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

~ Helen Rowland

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

~ Vivienne Westwood

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

~ Taslima Nasrin

I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

~ Tawakkol Karman

A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.

~ Olga Kurylenko

Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.

~ Monica Bellucci

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

~ Judith Butler

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

~ Natalie Wood

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

~ Anna Held

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

~ Margaret Thatcher

That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

~ Sojourner Truth

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

~ Ginger Rogers

I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!

~ Shakira

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

~ Joseph Conrad

I am my own woman.

~ Evita Peron

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

~ Lynn Nottage

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

~ Alice Paul