Women Quotes

Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.

~ Miranda Kerr

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

~ Alanis Morissette

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

~ Kelly Osbourne

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

~ Dita Von Teese

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

~ Andrew Weil

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.

~ Chris Rock

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

~ Peter Beard

I never in a million years thought I would be the person to go to for self-esteem; that was not my intent. But I happen to love beauty, I love the way people look, and I love making women look beautiful.

~ Bobbi Brown

Ipsy's goal has always been to create a community that inspires women around the world to express their own unique beauty.

~ Michelle Phan

I meet and talk to women from every corner of this planet, and I can find beauty in each and every one of them.

~ Alek Wek

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

~ Rudyard Kipling

So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

~ Bayard Taylor

I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.

~ Margaret D. Nadauld

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

~ Minna Antrim

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

~ Fay Weldon

I know a lot of aesthetically beautiful women who are not nice people, and they do not come across as beautiful to me. I think the number one thing for beauty is a smile. I love a woman with a beautiful smile.

~ Sara Foster

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

~ Sandra Bullock

I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to amuse my mother's friends even at five or six with witty turns of phrase. Somehow, I just knew how to be funny.

~ Howard Jacobson

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

~ Fionnula Flanagan

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

~ Wendy Liebman

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

~ O. Henry

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

~ Lake Bell

I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.

~ Seal

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

~ David Spade

Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

~ Patton Oswalt

I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.

~ Tatiana Maslany

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.

~ Lily Tomlin

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.

~ Zooey Deschanel

It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.

~ Alexa Chung

What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

~ Elizabeth Meriwether

If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a white Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic, too, as we would learn.

~ Margo Jefferson

To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

~ Jay Parini

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.

~ Antony Beevor

As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.

~ Niecy Nash

The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men.'

~ Adrienne Mayor

We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.

~ Adrienne Mayor

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

~ Crystal Eastman

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

~ John F. Kennedy