Woman Quotes

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

~ Gloria Steinem

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

~ Camille Paglia

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

~ Marguerite Duras

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

~ Dilma Rousseff

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

~ Clare Boothe Luce

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

~ Florence Nightingale

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

~ William Butler Yeats

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

~ Satchel Paige

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a woman with the natural wrinkles of time on her face, I do not see the wrinkles at all, but when I see a woman trying to cover them up with too much foundation or concealer, all I see are her wrinkles.

~ Isabella Rossellini

Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.

~ Kendra Wilkinson

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

~ Anaïs Nin

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

~ Corita Kent

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.

~ Marc Jacobs

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

~ Erica Jong

There's competition among women everywhere you go. But back home, we understand that you can look like a variety of things and still be from the same culture. What I'm saying is that I've never felt like I was a light-skinned black woman. Never felt that way because we shared the same culture back home.

~ Grace Gealey

If I body-shame a woman, it is more a reflection of me being critical of my body, me not being able to keep up to certain standards I have, and so making sure that the women around me feel the same way.

~ Rupi Kaur

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

I vividly remember watching women in films when I was nine or 10, picturing them being what I'd be like as an adult. I had these real female crushes on certain actresses. And I'd watch them, thinking, 'One day, I'll be that. One day I'll be a woman.'

~ Alicia Vikander

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

~ James Howell

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

~ Erma Bombeck

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

~ George Balanchine

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

~ Germaine Greer

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

~ Gilda Radner

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

~ H. L. Mencken

During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'

~ Goldie Hawn

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

~ Camille Paglia

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

~ Shirley Manson

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

~ Mary Astell

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

~ Neil Labute

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

~ Jean Giraudoux

Women are just beginning to see that there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

~ Kenny Loggins

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

~ Antonia Fraser

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

~ Louise Slaughter

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

~ Thomas Moore

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

~ George William Curtis