Top 100 About Women Quotes
#1. After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.
Austin O'Malley
#2. I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.
Greta Gerwig
#3. I think women should support each other's work, encourage each other's work, help develop each other's voices and I think, ultimately, when we can stop having the conversation about 'women filmmakers', and just talk about 'filmmakers', then we'll know we've really gotten somewhere.
Jennifer Westfeldt
#4. To be monitoring anything we fucking say. If you wanted to discuss menstruation at great length and detail, this is probably our best chance. He's always been squeamish about women, and no one likes a Peeping Tom, even if he is prime minister.
James S.A. Corey
#5. 'A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.
Rebel Wilson
#6. I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways.
Stephanie Moore
#7. Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women ... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film.
Jessica Chastain
#8. Stack, like every man who has never known a woman, believed he knew a great deal about women.
Claire Keegan
#9. The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
Pamela Adlon
#10. Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women's issues, and that will help her get to that quiet place inside of herself where she can then explore what it means to be a woman to her.
Laura Benanti
#11. Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
Lucy Stone
#12. While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
Andrea Dworkin
#13. I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!
Bette Davis
#14. If somebody said something racist around me, or you, or most people, you would correct it, you would stop it, but when they say things about women, so frequently no one says anything. That has to change.
Rose McGowan
#15. History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.
Stieg Larsson
#16. That women were more spiritual, more sacred than men. I still believe that about women. Is that, too, comical?
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. Many of the seminal social issues of our time - poverty, lack of education, human trafficking, war and torture, domestic abuse - can track their way to our theology of, or beliefs about, women, which has its roots in what we believe about the nature, purposes, and character of God.
Sarah Bessey
#18. I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm throwing it right back at them with humor, but some people can't take it. They're not used to women talking back.
Kesha
#19. Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
Jose Saramago
#20. It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.
Carrie Coon
#21. In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'
Caitlin Moran
#22. I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.
Jodie Foster
#23. I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.
Aminatta Forna
#24. I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.
George Michael
#25. It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that doesn't roll off the tongue like 'YouTube sensation.'
Kelly Corrigan
#26. I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
Tanith Lee
#27. No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them
Otto Weininger
#28. There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Dick Wolf
#29. About women? When I say soldiers I don't mean me. I wasn't no soldier anymore than a man that fixes watches is a watchmaker. And when I say women I don't mean you.
William Faulkner
#30. You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of women, they do not understand women, they write about women as creatures that never existed,
Dylan Thomas
#31. A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.
Rachel Kushner
#32. Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
Bette Davis
#33. You can go out and you can run ads all day long on Donald Trump and what he says about women, and you haven't even gotten close to separating his supporters from him, 'cause that's not why they're there.
Rush Limbaugh
#34. If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#35. For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Bertrand Russell
#36. Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.
Kathryn Hughes
#37. All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.
Gabrielle Zevin
#38. What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.
Lisa Scottoline
#39. As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
Zainab Salbi
#40. So even if I'm getting intelligent and learning a lot of new things, he thinks I'm still a boy about women. It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.
Daniel Keyes
#41. I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.
Chantal Joffe
#42. Women who come to see me admit that they've never looked at their sex organ; they've never seen their clitoris. Now tell me if that isn't a form of being psychologically genitally mutilated? For them, the clitoris doesn't exist, but we're worried about women in Africa!
Betty Dodson
#43. I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#44. Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.
Dan Chaon
#45. It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.
Olivia Wilde
#46. Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves.
But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#47. One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it.
Ruth Downie
#48. I've never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.
Mark Lawrence
#49. I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.
Agnes Varda
#50. If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote.
Moby
#51. Woman, you got a mouth on you."
"It's not 1955 any longer. Women swear as much as men."
"I miss women who talk about women things."
"You're changing the subject. Keep it up and I'll talk about my period. That's a woman thing.
Edie Ramer
#52. Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking about women in a way that was very unusual because he didn't objectify them.
Robyn
#53. Among our people, theres not any question about women being strong
even stronger than men
they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you dont have these questions about yourself like middle
class women do.
Dolores Huerta
#54. There should be a drama series about women trying to figure out their mystery leg bruises.
Kelly Oxford
#55. No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.
Seymour Hicks
#56. Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?
Elizabeth Banks
#57. I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.
Hedy Lamarr
#58. Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.
Kate Clinton
#59. You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.
Jean Helion
#61. Tons of people want to see movies about women but they don't want to make them. I don't know why. I think that's insane because look at some of these big movies like Maleficent, they're huge. It's ridiculous. So, it is really hard but I'm determined to do something about that.
Maya Forbes
#62. Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
Bryan Ferry
#63. The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power.
Naomi Wolf
#64. I think it holds up pretty good because more and more women are coming to the forefront in all areas, and back then they said that nobody would care about women's friendship.
Garry Marshall
#65. The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.
Amy Pascal
#66. Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.
Bonnie Somerville
#67. The world is full of seemingly nice guys who assault women. Guys who don't have healthy attitudes about women and sex in general, who see sex as something they are entitled to, who hurt women and don't even know they are doing it because we don't educate our young men on how not to become rapists.
Amy Hatvany
#68. People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?
Frederick Lenz
#69. [the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."
Slash
#70. Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Gail Collins
#71. This is not just about women. We men need to recognize the part we play, too. Real men treat women with the dignity and respect they deserve.
Prince Harry
#72. You know about women who work in bars." "What about them?" Bing asked. "Whores," Manx said. "Almost all of them. At least until their looks go, and in the case of Lily Carter's mother they're going fast.
Joe Hill
#73. The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
Madame De Stael
#74. The researchers speculated that men in traditional marriages are not overtly hostile toward women but instead are "benevolent sexists" - holding positive yet outdated views about women.10 (Another term I have heard is "nice guy misogynists.")
Sheryl Sandberg
#75. With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
Callie Khouri
#76. When I read about women living under the Taliban, I really wanted to travel there and see for myself: Is it that bad? What is the situation? I remember the night before I left for my trip, I called my mom and said, "I'm going to Afghanistan tomorrow."
Lynsey Addario
#77. What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
Lara Stone
#78. My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
Tallulah Bankhead
#79. Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.
Heather Mitts
#80. Why does she always have the moral high ground, what is it about women, always behaving so well and thinking of things we should have thought of first and shaming us?
Jill Dawson
#81. What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
Meghan O'Rourke
#82. What is about women that they just go right for the guy that repulses them?
Alison Brie
#83. In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.
Jane Yolen
#84. There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price - not to mention the time saved doing so - that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition.
Penny Reid
#85. I don't get this shitty attitude that only gays should care about gay issues and only women should care about women's issues.
Sarah Silverman
#86. What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
Ernest Hemingway,
#87. I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy
#88. There is something very easy about women's friendships that you don't see as often with men. We all know examples of this, when women will just call each other up or drop a line, not with anything specific to say.
Laurie Graham
#89. That everything in the society actually revolves about women, not men. The men are all looking at pictures of women, and the women are all communicating with other women.
Jonathan Franzen
#90. Guy knows all about women he don't know nothing about a woman.
John Steinbeck
#91. Everything I do is about women honouring themselves, treating themselves and taking care of themselves.
Elle Macpherson
#92. [At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.
Malcolm X
#93. I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
Katherine Heigl
#94. 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
#95. Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.
Jane Fonda
#96. I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
Kesha
#97. What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
Yasmina Reza
#98. You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel."
I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of
when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man.
V.C. Andrews
#99. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.
Derek Jeter
#100. The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.
Pearl S. Buck
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