Capable Women Quotes

#1. The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.

Susan Davis

#2. I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Neil LaBute

#3. In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

Subcomandante Marcos

#4. Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as cruelty.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

Amy Dickinson

#6. Only women were capable of being so fucking sexy you wanted to lick them clean when they considered themselves dirty.

C.J. Roberts

#7. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

Erin Morgenstern

#8. Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

L. Neil Smith

#9. I have long been aggravated, and it increases, about the way that society values women almost exclusively for their beauty and youth, and when we get older, tries to make us powerless - just when we're at our most knowledgeable, and most capable. It's so rotten. I gnash my teeth.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#10. As president, I will take that common ground and sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I will stop allowing taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. And I will support those pregnancy centers and women's health clinics around the country that are actually serving their communities.

Carly Fiorina

#11. Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Sheryl Sandberg

#12. Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#13. Her voice was erudite, interesting; the voice of someone who straddled two cultures with a surety and style that I wished my boyfriend could find. She was smart, funny, and, above all, completely capable of controlling her life and what happened to it.

Ruth Ahmed

#14. There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.

Doris Lessing

#15. I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

Amy Engel

#16. First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Margaret Cavendish

#17. I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Catherine Ashton

#18. I love that about us
how capable we are of feeling
how unafraid we are of breaking
and tend to our wounds with grace
just being a woman
calling myself
a woman
makes me utterly whole
and complete

Rupi Kaur

#19. My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Reese Witherspoon

#20. I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be the last.

Margaret Atwood

#21. The real aim of social and industrial organization ought to be the production of strong, healthy men and women, capable of playing and working with the least pain and the greatest joy.

Charles A. Beard

#22. a body betrayed
a heart destroyed
a mind in confusion
and yet a woman
is capable of taking pain
and transforming it into triumph

R H Sin

#23. How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?

Christiane Collange

#24. Only a woman is capable of stalking someone, just so she could have the pleasure of ignoring him.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#25. All of that is to say that women need to wise up and stop overlooking the men who are capable of loving them right and chasing after the men that will treat them horribly.

Zane

#26. Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

Cameron Diaz

#27. There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

Liz Vassey

#28. I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

Louis MacNeice

#29. Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations

Frederick Lenz

#30. Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.

Oscar Wilde

#31. In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#32. I'd never seen Marcello [Mastroianni] truly in love with a woman. I called him "the man who couldn't love." He was capable of enormous amounts of affection. He respected the women who were close to him, but never once fell in love.

Giovanna Cau

#33. Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

Mary Astell

#34. For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

Rose McIver

#35. The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time ... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Lawrence Durrell

#36. There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.

Betty Friedan

#37. Chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies

Honore De Balzac

#38. For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

Frederick Lenz

#39. I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

Jean Liedloff

#40. My momma says we don't need a man to do our chores for us, 'cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara's mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them.

Gena Showalter

#41. People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#42. It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward.

Maureen Johnson

#43. I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history
whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.

Barack Obama

#44. I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades.

Cassandra Duffy

#45. A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Anthony Marra

#46. Evidently, women are capable of experiencing rational thought and sexual arousal simultaneously, because I appeared to be doing precisely that.

Diana Gabaldon

#47. I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.
Then - I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then - I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then - I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#48. Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#49. What is important is that I have been able to demonstrate to other women and also to Aboriginal people generally that Aboriginal people are capable of doing these things and women are capable of doing these things and Aboriginal women are capable of doing these things.

Pat O'Shane

#50. I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Alice Walker

#51. The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them ... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#52. If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Havelock Ellis

#53. The trouble is that so many people, most of them women, think they have to have a perfect body to be loved. But all it has to do is be capable of loving---and being loved.

Nina George

#54. I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

Alice Steinbach

#55. Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.

Helen Fisher

#56. A man can marry a thousand women but his heart is only capable of suitably loving one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#57. Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women ... in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

Eric Ludy

#58. Mmm, carry me."
I laughed, reaching for my sweatpants. "I carry girls, boys, and women, not fully grown capable men."
"Slacker." He grinned, shoving me.

Shaye Evans

#59. Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

L. Neil Smith

#60. President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!

Tammy Duckworth

#61. Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Mike Huckabee

#62. Beautiful women, wealth, sensations, celebrity, substances capable of distorting my perception, and even forcing my body into positions ready for the covers of important yoga magazines - I pursued them all, some wholeheartedly, but none would satisfy my real longing.

Rod Stryker

#63. Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different ... I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.

Dorothy Allison

#64. The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

Jane Campion

#65. The clear lesson of New England's history is that when there are not enough suitable men around to run the world, women are perfectly capable of doing so.

Wallace Stegner

#66. We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs that women are capable of doing.

Hilda Solis

#67. Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.

Curt Goetz

#68. The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

Jackson Katz

#69. Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

Pope Francis

#70. Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.

Deepak Chopra

#71. Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

Joss Whedon

#72. It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

Paulo Freire

#73. Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

Nellie L. McClung

#74. I'm calling because that's what women expect men to do. You expect us to call at least once a day, proving we're capable of thinking of nothing but you when we're not. We're thinking of work.

Kristen Ashley

#75. Feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in his actions with women - as well as with other men. Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.

Michael S. Kimmel

#76. Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#77. Vaginal penetration only doesn't work for most of us. And we're not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!

Betty Dodson

#78. With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are necessary for women to free themselves and become all that they are capable of being.

Frederick Lenz

#79. According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they're less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integrity would put up with it?

Margaret Atwood

#80. Women at the top are the ones chosen to be there by men and not eliminated by women, a dual filter that excludes most witches: those with brilliance and originality and those capable of disturbing the status quo.

Heather Marsh

#81. I'm not saying that women don't think about sex also. I'm saying that women are capable, for at least brief periods of time, of not thinking about sex, and that most guys are not.

Dave Barry

#82. People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Gabrielle Zevin

#83. My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

Michelle Bachelet

#84. I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

Reese Witherspoon

#85. The women hailed in the bible as examples for us were exceedingly wise, clever, intelligent, capable, and quick-witted. They were not shackled to the home, brainless ans without ambition. But their ambitions were God-oriented and God-directed.
~ Jennie

Anna Sofia Botkin

#86. I am capable of opening my own door," I said, getting out of the car. "Why do today's women think it's important to open a door themselves?" he said sharply.

Deborah Harkness

#87. For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

Daniel Defoe

#88. I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.

Sidney Sheldon

#89. You don't even know me, or what I am capable of, boy.

S.R. Crawford

#90. I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Katharine Graham