Women Quotes

That girl has done things to your head.'He pats my back, 'Don’t pretend she’s not crawling inside of yours.

~ James W. Bodden

...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...

~ John Geddes

We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.

~ S.e. Cupp

Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age and that girls are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by male relatives, neighbors and school teachers.

~ Njovana Watts

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

~ Susan Griffin

As a leader, it’s critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.

~ Bonnie Marcus

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It’s become my identity. If that’s gone, where am I?

~ Barbara Delinsky

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a prin

~ Harriet Brooks

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

~ Kris Kristofferson

Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.

~ Katlyn Charlesworth

Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

~ Inga Muscio

Josie, like Gretchen, isn't afraid of blood. What woman would be?

~ Chelsea Cain

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

~ Michelle Mckinney Hammond

I have always believed that women hold this world together with theirlove, passion, inspiration, hard work, vision and willingness to helpothers. Yet, increased responsibility in both our personal and professionallives – to become “superwomen” – is taking a devastating toll onour health and happiness.

~ Simin Hashemizadeh

To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.

~ Lisa Graham Mcminn

Madeleine Albright says, “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.” I wonder what happens to women who bully other women.

~ Crystal Woods

But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her...

~ Sanhita Baruah

I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.

~ Pushpa Rana

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

~ Candace Bushnell

Everyone loves a kick-ass girl. (Well- maybe not her enemies, but you know what I mean.)

~ Sarah Cross

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

~ Richard Llewellyn

Did you never wonder why the old books are so full of dragons chasing after maidens? The serpents think the girls are orphans, and long to get them away in a lair so that they may grow up strong and tall.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Life is brief, young maiden, fall in love; before the crimson bloom fades from your lips, before the tides of passion cool within your hips, for those of you who know no tomorrow. (Gondola no Uta)

~ Kouhei Kadono

When you make things too easy on someone, you’re giving them a discount on your worth.

~ K.m.docherty

One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.

~ Maureen F. Mchugh

Our simple daily decisions can become our best friend or our worst enemy. They can draw us towards our goals or send us orbiting into a galaxy far, far away. These are the days of our lives. We are offered choices every day; sickness or health, poverty or wealth, happiness or misery, knowledge or ignorance, to jump or to wait, to grow or to die, faith or doubt, for better or worse. Everything in your life exists because you made a series of decisions. Each decision, positive or negative, starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit. It is the little things that we put off doing that cumulatively make an enormous difference–in the end results.

~ Mary Maina

To The Lilies among Thistles, Just like a lily, a beautiful life does not just happen overnight. It is built daily through informed choices, commitment, faith and prayer. The journey towards becoming A Proverbs 31 Lady cannot therefore be taken lightly. It is a difficult, challenging journey filled with both laughter and tears, but a fulfilling one as you will soon find out. If you commit to becoming this woman just one day at a time, it will change not just your relationships but also your whole life.Consider it as a challenge, from one virtuous woman to the other.

~ Mary Maina

Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Generally, a woman would rather be married to any man that she doesn’t hate, than remain unmarried to a man that she loves.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A 'good man' is a male creature that survives the endless episodes that its woman spends complaining about women who she hates, and, women who hate her.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am not your dog that you whistle for; I’m not a stray animal you call over, and I am not, I never have been, nor will I ever be, your “baby”!

~ Joy Jennings

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

~ Baby Halder

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

In a society not characterised by class exploitation, the relationship between the processes of surplus-production and reproduction of labour-power is qualitatively distinct from that characterising societies in which exploitation dominates...surplus-labour is identified by the nature of its contribution to social reproduction, not by the fact that it is provately appropriated.

~ Lise Vogel

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the market put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production?

~ Arundhati Roy

Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.

~ Laurie Penny

Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out.

~ Leslie T. Chang