Women Quotes

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

~ Ann Richards

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course —those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape ‘kit ‘n’ stuff, But for everybody else, it’s a win-win. Unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years - whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know - actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster.

~ Tina Fey

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

~ Abigail Adams

Some leaders are born women.

~ Geraldine Ferraro

The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time. Winston woke up with the word ‘Shakespeare’ on his lips.

~ George Orwell

Women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into panties. Propaganda and lies to get into office, to get out of court, to get out of paying child support. Get the fuck out of our decisions and give us back our voice. Women deserve better; women deserve choice.

~ Sonya Renee Taylor

What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.

~ Rebecca Traister

Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women.

~ Kenneth Cain

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks of State must each produce his plan,And even children lisp the Rights of Man;Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

~ Robert Burns

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president—only the second impeachment hearing in American history—you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through.

~ Christopher Hitchens

I call [fourth-wave feminism] fainting–couch feminism, a la the delicate Victorian ladies who retreated to an elegant chaise when overcome with emotion. As an equality feminist from the 1970s, I am dismayed by this new craze. Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can’t cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers. Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism—and for women.

~ Christina Hoff Sommers

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

~ Núria Añó

There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.

~ Betty Friedan

When and where there is repression, what a woman does when she gets dressed in the morning may be considered political. Wearing or not wearing a veil, disobeying laws that prohibit transgender dressing, or wearing a large Afro in an institution that seeks to diminish the formation of racial alliances are all actions that can serve as challenges to domination

~ Maxine Leeds Craig

The future shouldn't be female or male---but one of women and men working together. That's the real definition of equality.

~ Karin Agness

My mother’s dress bears the stains of her life:blueberries, blood, bleach, and breast milk;She cradles in her arms a lifetime of love and sorrow;Its brilliance nearly blinds me.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

~ Joseph Conrad

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

~ Anaïs Nin

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

~ John Lennon

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

~ Nora Ephron

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

~ Coco Chanel

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

~ Bette Davis

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

~ Jane Austen

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

~ Anaïs Nin

No woman really wants a man to carry her off, she only wants him to want to do it.

~ Elizabeth Peters

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

~ Virginia Woolf

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

~ Robert Jordan

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

~ Audrey Hepburn

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

~ Coco Chanel

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

~ Oscar Wilde

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

~ Cheris Kramarae

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress, dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

~ Coco Chanel

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

~ Yves Saint-Laurent

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

~ Cherie Priest

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

~ Mae West

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

~ Mae West

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

~ Cher

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

~ Gloria Steinem