Women Quotes

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

~ Belle Boyd

When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang.

~ Michelle Phan

The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

~ George Will

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

~ Caroline Kennedy

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

~ Kate Millett

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

~ Kate Millett

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

~ Morgan Fairchild

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

~ Edna Ferber

We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.

~ Ann Powers

Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

~ Kim Cattrall

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

~ Hill Harper

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.

~ Deborah Tannen

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

~ Alice Walker

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

~ Joanna Lumley

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

~ Ari Graynor

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

~ Zadie Smith

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

~ Joan Cusack

As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.

~ Susan Glaspell

I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.

~ Quentin Bryce

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

~ Kenny Marchant

When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.

~ Jennifer Chiaverini

'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.

~ Rochelle Aytes

I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.

~ Diane English

When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.'' But it wasn't that at all. It wasn't a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship.

~ Jes Macallan

Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.

~ Iris Apfel

I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

~ Azzedine Alaia

We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.

~ Marilyn Minter

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

~ Julie Burchill

The sad reality is that girl-on-girl hate is such a big issue in schools, at work, or online, and it never made any sense to me because, as women, we know how awesome other women can be.

~ Lilly Singh

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

~ Jack Nicholson

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women's bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it's sad that we get distracted - all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that - they're all distractions.

~ Rebecca Ferguson

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

~ Rene Russo

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

~ Billie Jean King

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

~ Germaine Greer

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

~ Marie Osmond

Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.

~ Julia Michaels

If you listen to the radio, it's all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There's nothing wrong with that! It definitely should be the case, but it makes me sad that women are afraid to be emotional because it makes them look weak.

~ Julia Michaels