Top 100 Quotes About Women's Worth
#1. What's the difference between venerating women for being fuckable and putting them on a purity pedestal? In both cases, women's worth is contingent upon their ability to please men and to shape their sexual identities around what men want.
Jessica Valenti
#2. Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp.
Rich Hall
#3. In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#4. I haven't always been a patient man ... but something tells me you'd be worth the wait.
Sam Langley
#5. If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
Friedrich Engels
#6. When you make things too easy on someone, you're giving them a discount on your worth; and this causes them to regard you as inferior.
K.M.Docherty
#7. She asked me to call her bitch downstairs when we were doing shots at the bar. Said it turned her on. Later, with a laugh, she switched it to princess. Now she wants mistress. High maintenance. Some women are worth it.
Karen Marie Moning
#8. In my opinion, the only good spider is a dead spider, and women's rights aren't worth dick if they mean I can't ask a man to do my bug squashing.
Janet Evanovich
#9. And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to live, but none had made him feel that his life was precious, was worth saving, was worth something.
Louise Penny
#10. Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. In an imperialist racist patriarchal society that supports and condones oppression, it is not surprising that men and women judge their worth, their personal power, by their ability to oppress others.
Bell Hooks
#12. Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.
Cameron Russell
#13. Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!
Jennifer Worth
#14. Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott
#15. What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?
Nafis Sadik
#16. Does that sort of blatantly lascivious glance generally sway women to jump into your bed?" she asked tartly.
"Often enough to make it worth the attempt.' He grinned. "Besides, it need only work occasionally. "a man must sleep sometime.
Sabrina Jeffries
#18. All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It's so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.
Katrina Kaif
#19. Stop making someone else's looks your "#goals". By all means aspire to be a better version of your current self, but don't glorify others when you yourself are glorious.
Miya Yamanouchi
#20. Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
John Milton
#21. That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.
Kate Lord Brown
#22. When women tell me that Skinny Bitch made them go vegan, my appreciation of the book's purpose is tainted by a sadness that their self-worth had to be bartered to make that choice.
Kim Socha
#23. Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.
Janet Street-Porter
#24. Some women had more penises in their mouth than men had kisses in theirs but it's a relationship that clarifies their worth.
Kent Lamarc
#25. Women. They carried the whole world, one way or another, and they still felt like they weren't worth a hill of beans unless they got paid for their troubles. And troubles they had plenty of.
Stephanie Mittman
#26. I am often amused when women with little or no experience in housekeeping and/or unaccustomed to performing household chores, upon stumbling on a man almost miraculously become domesticated.
D. Cypriani Regis
#27. On a planet where for thousands of years, even today, a woman's worth has been judged exclusively by the productivity of her womb, what the hell is the point of a barren woman?
Elissa Stein And Susan Kim
#28. Ou don't always know the true worth of a women's love until it becomes a memory.
Georgia Cates
#29. I know it's hard for women to tap into that feeling of self-worth. We need to get the message out that you are valued, you are a goddess and don't forget that.
Jennifer Lopez
#30. I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more!
Doug Stanhope
#31. It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.
Kyle D. Pruett
#32. Men don't become worth your while until they're in their thirties." ...
"Well, it's not automatic with all men, you know." ...
"With women, of course, it's different. Women are born interesting.
Natasha Mostert
#33. Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
Jon Bon Jovi
#34. What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#35. She's got legs like a stork, no arse worth speaking of, and great cow-like eyes. call that a woman?' 'You just like big tits', chentsov retorted. 'That's an outmoded, pre-revolutionary point of view
Vasily Grossman
#36. As men and women seek to find independence from God, they have lost a sense of purpose in life. The worth of human personality is often equated with what we do for a living. However, a person's occupation, community standing, or bank account is not what is important in God's eyes.
Billy Graham
#37. I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#38. Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#39. A man's worth isn't in how many women he's had. It's in how he loves the right one.
Sophie Oak
#40. Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?
Christine De Pizan
#41. That's why he preferred young women. So much easier to impress. Although these days he often found them as rude and forthright as their older sisters. God were women worth it?
Gert Loveday
#43. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
Erin Morgenstern
#44. 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
#45. When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.
Gerda Lerner
#46. When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community.
Aurin Squire
#47. A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident.
Auliq Ice
#48. The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
Dan Jenkins
#49. No one judging her by her appearance would dream that Miss Daphne Wade had a rather salacious habit of staring at her employer's naked chest whenever she had the chance, although most women would have agreed that Anthony Courtland, Duke of Tremore, had a chest worth looking at.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#50. Male social conditioning encourages boys and men to aim to bed as many women as possible....so much so, that their self esteem and self worth become intertwined with the number of sexual partners they have; and when that number is low or even zero, so too is their self-confidence.
Miya Yamanouchi
#51. I use "equal worth" rather than equality because the latter term often assumes that men's historical experience - whether economic, political, or sexual - is the standard to which women should aspire.
Estelle B. Freedman
#52. Our primary problem as Christian women is not that we lack self-worth, not that we lack a sense of significance. It's that we lack awe.
Jen Wilkin
#53. The women I'm attracted to have to know their worth. That measurement can only be weighed from the inside, and when that's taken into account and she truly appreciates it? Everything on the outside of her becomes an asset.
Riley Murphy
#54. In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.
(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)
Aung San Suu Kyi
#55. This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.
Jennifer Weiner
#56. But trust me, men are never worth it. Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron. Romance is for saps, Abbie. You're sharp and you've got pluck. Don't waste it.
William Ritter
#57. She did not date. She did not have time for men. Men were never, ever worth a great amount of energy. She was the kind of woman that looked down on what she called 'settlers', women who chose love and fleeting passion that turned to dull, lifeless marriages over a career and independence.
Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
#58. We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#59. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Florynce Kennedy
#60. I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#61. Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
Mariella Frostrup
#62. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#63. Women whose shit is worth puttin' up with and women whose it isn't. I'm
Kristen Ashley
#64. Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For me, a woman of worth is someone who has self -espect, who believes that she can change things in society.
Sonam Kapoor
#65. What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.
Judith Martin
#66. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
Julieanne O'Connor
#67. No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
W. Somerset Maugham
#68. Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen
that nearly causes bloodshed.
Vikram Seth
#69. Besides, men aren't worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we'd be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you're the only person you can trust.
S.R. Crawford
#70. Who she walks with, will tell you if she's worth it.
Dustin Cruz
#71. A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.
Cormac McCarthy
#72. The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.
Neil Jordan
#73. I also worry about the incessant drumbeat of self-objectification: the pressure on young women to reduce their worth to their bodies and to see those bodies as a collection of parts that exist for others' pleasure; to continuously monitor their appearance; to perform rather than to feel sensuality.
Peggy Orenstein
#74. Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.
Harry Truman
#75. 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
#76. When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.
Elizabeth George
#77. Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
Warren Farrell
#78. Younger people - not just older people - holding this basic underlying attitude that's suggested there that women aren't worth much, that they're property, that just about anything can be done with them.
Steve Inskeep
#79. We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.
Stasi Eldredge
#80. Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club's worth of speeches.
Allison Glock
#81. Every women should cherish & respect their worth!!! T.B
Tawana Beecham
#82. She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.
Mina Loy
#83. Don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#84. A man in the house is worth two on the street.
Mae West
#85. Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
Louisa May Alcott
#86. The women that were worth that kind of heart-break wouldn't let you fall for them so easy. They wouldn't bend over your couch, or allow you to charm them into their bedroom on the first night - or even the tenth.
Jamie McGuire
#87. We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth.
I will honor my mother and take care of my family.
Yes, I think. I am just a woman.
Kristen Simmons
#88. What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
Angelique Kidjo
#89. Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness.
Toni Sorenson
#90. Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.
Gloria Steinem
#91. If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.
Henry Adams
#92. The worth of a culture, in his opinion, could be boiled down to one thing - how well that culture took care of its weakest members, particularly its women and children.
Brad Thor
#93. Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.
Natalie Portman
#94. Trust me
with women worth the being won,
The softest lover ever best succeeds.
Aaron Hill
#95. I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
Olympia Dukakis
#96. You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.
A.S. King
#97. The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#98. A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.
George Egerton
#99. I like what L'Oreal stands for, which is women of worth.
Andie MacDowell
#100. There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person's mind.
Shannon L. Alder
