Women Quotes

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.

~ Christina Rossetti

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

~ John Henry Cardinal Newman

Go ahead with your life your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

~ Richard L. Evans

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

~ John Heywood

We may our ends by our beginnings know.

~ Sir John Denham

The only joy in the world is to begin.

~ Cesare Pavese

Every artist was first an amateur.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

~ Elbert Hubbard

She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.

~ Mervyn Peake

Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't...As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.

~ S.a.r.k.

Why do women always do this? Why are they so eager to blame themselves when someone treats them like sh*t? A guy would take a cheese grater to his tongue before admitting he screwed up.

~ Emma Chase

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

~ Marcel Proust

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

~ Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

~ Émilie Du Châtelet

Have you ever been to Paris before? I asked Kylian.No, though from what I've seen, I'm sure it's worth a trip. And even with what little I saw I think it's quite fitting for you to be the Patroness of Paris. You're like Paris and Paris is like you.Noisy?A mystery.

~ Natalie Herzer

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

~ Rachele Baker

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

~ Rachele Baker

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

~ Thomas Hardy

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

~ Alison Fell

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

~ Deborah Laake

After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.

~ Ian Ker

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

~ Hillary Clinton

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

~ Kathryn Bigelow

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

~ David Ogilvy

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

~ Rosanna Arquette

Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

~ P. T. Barnum

I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.

~ Alice Paul

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

~ Billie Jean King

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

~ Billie Jean King

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

~ Dick Cheney

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

~ Julie Walters

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

~ Anne Enright

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

~ Christian Louboutin

And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.

~ Mark Wahlberg

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

~ Kathleen Turner

I love women with attitude.

~ Kevin Hart

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

~ Jimmy Carter

All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed.

~ James E. Faust

Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.

~ Walter Cronkite

They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.

~ Kangana Ranaut