Top 100 Believe Women Quotes
#1. You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?
Gail Collins
#2. I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes; that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#3. I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.
Roxane Gay
#4. I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.
Marina And The Diamonds
#5. One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.
Anita Sarkeesian
#6. It is important to note that when Mary Magdalene and other women were chosen by Jesus to bring the important news to the men, the men did not believe the women. Today 2,000 years later men still don't believe women when they say "We are also chosen by Jesus to be leaders in the church.
Roy Bourgeois
#8. I believe women are the glue of everything.
Weili Dai
#9. I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.
Katherine Center
#10. A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.
Weili Dai
#11. Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men's help
except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it.
Margaret Mitchell
#12. Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
Henry Ford
#13. I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
Andrew Cuomo
#14. She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five ... she says women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.
Jane Green
#15. A few pounds show a lot on my body. But it's okay. I believe women look good with a bit of softness to them.
Elle Macpherson
#16. I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.
Stana Katic
#17. They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.
William Westmoreland
#18. [It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones you love ... I believe women have more power than we give ourselves credit for ... We have been known to lift cars off of babies! That's incredible.
Katie Aselton
#19. It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept ... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
Ralph Lauren
#20. If you believe women are constituted differently to men then remove taxation from them. But if you're a democrat and you believe in government of the people by the people and for the people, then you believe in fair play. So when you tax women, give them the vote as well.
James Munro
#21. Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.
Gail Saltz
#22. So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.
Karen Chance
#23. I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.
Christine Lagarde
#24. In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.
Patrick Awuah Jr.
#25. I believe women do the best womenswear.
Tim Gunn
#26. It's not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there's an idea that women don't matter in the world, then all women are diminished.
Cherie Blair
#27. I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25.
Jay Leno
#28. When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis
#29. You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing your community. I really believe women can do it all, but they can't do it all at the expense of their health, their sleep, and their sense of well-being.
Arianna Huffington
#30. I believe women can lead more in the workplace.
I believe men can contribute more in the home. And I believe that this will create a better world, one where half our institutions are run by women and half our homes are run by men.
Sheryl Sandberg
#31. A harem is not a brothel, as so many Westerners erroneously believe. It is merely the women's living quarters. Male relatives can join them
but no male nonrelatives may do so. It is hardly a den of eroticism.
Phyllis Chesler
#32. I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.
Joan Kirner
#33. Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.
Alanis Morissette
#34. Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
Julian Barnes
#35. I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier.
Sheryl Sandberg
#36. I do believe 50 is the new 40 and 60 is the new 50. Hell, maybe 60 can be the new 40, I don't know. I believe that when we give ourselves permission, we can live with an excitement and heat and passion that most women in previous generations were unable to attain.
Marianne Williamson
#37. We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.
Barbara Jordan
#38. I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout.
Terry Tempest Williams
#39. I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
Alan K. Simpson
#40. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.
Graham Greene
#41. Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.
Kiki Smith
#42. What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self - whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it - believe me, it is still alive and kicking.
K.P. Yohannan
#43. I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.
Starhawk
#44. I believe that a woman who loses interest in her Bible has not been equipped to love it as she should. The God of the bible is too lovely to abandon for lesser pursuits.
Jen Wilkin
#45. It is one thing to believe in women, and another to believe what they say
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#46. The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.
Wafa Sultan
#47. We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
Arthur Ashe
#48. I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
Sally Field
#49. The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
Len Deighton
#50. She has man's brain
a brain that a man should have were he much gifted
and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
Bram Stoker
#51. There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.
Sue Wicks
#52. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves.
Roxane Gay
#53. I believe that women make some of the best leaders.
Amy Klobuchar
#54. If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.
Martin O'Malley
#55. In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.
Michael Kinsley
#56. I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.
David Cameron
#57. I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.
Gloria Allred
#58. I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#59. I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.
Georgie Anne Geyer
#60. I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
Elizabeth Berg
#61. I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
Anne Fortier
#62. And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#63. I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.
Camille Claudel
#64. Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
Cesare Pavese
#65. Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?
Owen Feltham
#66. I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.
Matt Dillon
#67. Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.
Ann Demeulemeester
#68. I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.
Alice Moore Hubbard
#69. When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.
Mas'udi
#70. I believe in the power of women. As nurturers, we have a unique ability to care and share and make the world a better place. Women Who Inspire are women who are making a difference.
Donna Karan
#71. I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings.
Joan Halifax
#72. I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.
Janelle Monae
#73. Many men believe in the saying that educating women is like allowing the nose of the camel into the tent: eventually the beast will edge in and take up all the room inside.
Geraldine Brooks
#74. Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.
Greg Proops
#75. But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have lost it, remaining, even after the very traces of it have vanished, as greedy as ever of admiration.
George MacDonald
#76. I believe that within every one of us is a woman of undiscovered beauty, a woman who is charming and talented and light of heart
Sarah Strohmeyer
#77. If you believe in equal rights, then what do "women's rights," "gay rights," etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.
Thomas Sowell
#78. The highest civilizations
the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms
are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.
Pearl S. Buck
#79. The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
Margaret Mead
#80. Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be a strong person who can overcome any innate weakens in her.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#81. I can't believe that women have got to put on so much in the morning. What time do women wake up? Man, I put a t-shirt and jeans on, and that's it.
Brandon T. Jackson
#82. The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.
Cynthia Heimel
#83. I adhere to the law of chastity because I don't believe in pushing women. That's what it means to be a man. I don't hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don't indulge in either. We don't need to.
Courtney Milan
#84. Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping not to die in childbirth!
Philippa Gregory
#85. His wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on
Charlotte Bronte
#86. Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.
Jessica Valenti
#87. I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.
Josh Wagner
#88. If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'
Katie Aselton
#89. I believe that the women were called by the Dodonaeans "doves" because they were barbarians, and so they seemed to the people of Dodona to talk like birds.
Herodotus
#90. I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.
Teri Hatcher
#91. Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#92. By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.
Honore De Balzac
#93. I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.
Khloe Kardashian
#94. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.
Joss Whedon
#95. Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write.
L.M. Montgomery
#96. The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
Louise Brown
#97. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.
Auliq Ice
#98. Such a big majority of book critics and authors have begun to teach, whether they really believe it or not, that no book is TRUE TO LIFE unless it is true to the WORST IN LIFE, that the idea has infected even the women.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#99. Dare to be bold and brave, my BEAUTIFUL QUEENS. Dare to believe that you can. Dare to make your dreams a reality. Dare to get out of your comfort zone and soar! Dare to live your life limitlessly. Dare to be yourself and be comfortable in your own skin. DARE.
Stephanie Lahart
#100. If all women were as frail as men seem to believe, the human race would have died out millennia ago.
Michelle Cooper
