Women Quotes

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country - all around the world - who show that type of fortitude.

~ Dwayne Johnson

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

~ Isabel Allende

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

~ John Ruskin

I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.

~ Michelle Yeoh

Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.

~ Cara Delevingne

I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.

~ Alber Elbaz

It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off gender as an independent locus of oppression, we dilute the strength of a women's movement, or of women's rights advocacy.

~ Rebecca Traister

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

~ Wangari Maathai

Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

~ Martha Mcsally

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.

~ Frans De Waal

I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

~ Jaclyn Smith

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

~ Frances O'grady

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.

~ Rene Burri

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

~ Ida B. Wells

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

~ Anita Shreve

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

~ Rose Schneiderman

The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

~ Nancy Gibbs

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

~ Jessica Simpson

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

~ Karen Decrow

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

~ Joss Whedon

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

~ Michelle Bachelet

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

~ Woodrow Wilson

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

~ Judith Butler

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

~ Mike Honda

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

~ Charles Fourier

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

~ Zendaya

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

~ Charlotte Bunch

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

~ Agnes Macphail

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

~ Susan B. Anthony

One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.

~ Michelle Bachelet

Equality for women is progress for all.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

~ Clara Zetkin

This is the problem with modern-day feminism. It used to be about equality. Now, it's about bashing men, asking for free stuff, and tearing down other women for refusing to play victim to the trumped-up, B.S. 'War on Women.'

~ Tomi Lahren

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

~ Toni Morrison

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

~ Margaret Thatcher