Real Women Quotes

#1. Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men

Elisabeth Elliot

#2. I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

America Ferrera

#3. I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#4. I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

Emily Giffin

#5. Real women breathe.

Luvvie Ajayi

#6. Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.

Hanne Blank

#7. Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

Naomi Wolf

#8. It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.

Tadashi Shoji

#9. What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

America Ferrera

#10. A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#11. Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold.

Jo Nesbo

#12. When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts.

Bell Hooks

#13. Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women ... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world

Annie Laurie Gaylor

#14. Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

Lucy Lawless

#15. I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

Charles Baxter

#16. You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.

Isaac Mizrahi

#17. The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order - the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.

Min Jin Lee

#18. Real women have children, wise women choose for themselves.

Karin Rahbek

#19. Boys don't go for fat girls. They talk about wanting 'real women', but what they mean is big tits. Not thighs, not bellies, not fat bums. They want skin and bone.

Claire Hennessy

#20. I mean this is not like a very dry political book. This is - it was a very quick and entertaining and interesting read because there were so many stories, at least for me, of real women and - and sort of the issues that they face, and her commitment to wanting to help them.

Eleanor Smeal

#21. Just as there are 'real men', there are indeed real women".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#22. Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

Rashida Jones

#23. Real women don't love the richest guy in the world they love the guy who can make their world the richest.

Jazz Feylynn

#24. Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

Tadashi Shoji

#25. Magazines wanted Jessica Rabbit - the animated character - not real women. Heck, even supermodels weren't good enough anymore. Real women didn't sell magazines. Unrealistic and unhealthy images of female beauty sold magazines.

Penny Reid

#26. Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

Nora Roberts

#27. When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?

Tim Gunn

#28. Empowered Women 101: A man doesn't have to put down other women to prove his love for you. In fact, why would you teach him to be less than Christlike, in order to show his devotion? Real women don't need the people in their life to lower others, in order to raise them up.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Douglas Adams

#30. My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman,

Brandy Clark

#31. There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#32. After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.

Anna Netrebko

#33. Women, real women do not have to prove anything to men. We already know we're the superior gender.

Christine Feehan

#34. Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin
or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

Jane Campion

#36. By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.

Sarah Lafleur

#37. I don't pay attention to celebrities. I don't photograph them. They don't dress so ... interestingly. They have stylists. I prefer real women who have their own taste.

Bill Cunningham

#38. When women get on competing, those aren't real women after all. Real women are those who empower the other, and they aren't found in parties or social gatherings

Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

#39. Well, girls love Justin Bieber ... But real women have Letogasms

Jared Leto

#40. Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?

Brandon T. Jackson

#41. The fiction, as always, is secondary to the history; the real women are always more complex and more conflicted, greater than the heroines of the novel, just as real women now, as then, are often greater than they are reported, sometimes greater than the world wants them to be.

Philippa Gregory

#42. DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.

Audre Lorde

#43. The only contry in the world where there's a majority of women in parliament is Rwanda. Rwanda. That's when women get power, real power - if the men are either dead or in prison.

A. L. Kennedy

#44. Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid women. I'm real. I'm as real as you are. My family is real like your family.

Bryn Greenwood

#45. It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.

Sally Ride

#46. If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

Desmond Tutu

#47. There are so few representations of women that look remotely real in scripted television.

Brooke Elliott

#48. This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss.
A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss.

Carol Fragale Brill

#49. Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

Mark Wahlberg

#50. It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

Candice Bergen

#51. Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

John F. Kennedy

#52. Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

Judith Martin

#53. I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Melissa Leo

#54. It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

Dee Dee Myers

#55. I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Sharon Gless

#56. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Barbara De Angelis

#57. I had a super close-up view of those incredible pants baseball players wore - truly, those pants were the real reason why a large portion of women even bothered to watch the game.

S.C. Stephens

#58. The implication that women as a category are unreliable and that false rape charges are the real issue is used to silence individual women and to avoid discussing sexual violence, and to make out men as the principal victims.

Rebecca Solnit

#59. In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#60. But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

Lord Byron

#61. Ser Loras lusts for glory as real men lust for women, the least the gods can do is grant him a death worthy of a song.

George R R Martin

#62. But let's be real: feminism has mostly worked hard for those things for white women, and that is one of the main reasons why it gets its wig snatched so often. A

Luvvie Ajayi

#63. There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

Steve Martin

#64. In the poorest countries ... it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty ... and preparing another generation for ... leading their countries into real security.

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#65. There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

Roberto Cavalli

#66. A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#67. 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

#68. For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world ...

Audre Lorde

#69. 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

#70. If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.

Portia Doubleday

#71. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others.

Pope Francis

#72. There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

Heather Graham

#73. Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

Susan Jacoby

#74. Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Nawal El Saadawi

#75. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#76. There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

Gail Simmons

#77. The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage.

John Green

#78. 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

#79. I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. It's women who can contribute to achieving real security - not bombs and bullets and repressive governments.

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#80. Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?

Thomas Pynchon

#81. Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Lilly Ledbetter

#82. In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn't like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn't like Sarah called her Caribou Barbie. People attempted to marginalize these women based on their gender.

Tina Fey

#83. Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

Florence King

#84. 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

#85. Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

Marcello Mastroianni

#86. For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

Pearl S. Buck

#87. We will not let ourselves be intimidated by the number and violence of attacks against women; nor be fooled by the self-serving praise showered on the "real woman"; nor be won over by men's enthusiasm for her destiny, a destiny they would not for the world want to share.

Simone De Beauvoir

#88. Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

Betty Friedan

#89. Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand up against domestic violence.

Neil Fox

#90. It says a lot about Sandberg's brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls

Jessica Roy

#91. While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse was happening. I wanted to be part of the Women's Aid Real Man campaign to send out the message that real men don't abuse their partners or their children.

Huey Morgan

#92. There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#93. The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Theodore Roosevelt

#94. Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. I love to design for women, it's really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.

Marc Jacobs

#96. I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.

Kelly Cutrone

#97. We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.

Plato

#98. Marriage is made out to be so important for girls but the focus has to shift at some point from marriage to the real challenges of life which are the same for women and men, so we have to prepare our girls just the way we prepare our boys.

Kangana Ranaut

#99. Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in ... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

Jane Austen

#100. Why? he asked, as if he really didn't know. Maybe he didn't. It wasn't the first time he gave evidence of being truly ignorant of the real conditions under which we (women) lived.

Margaret Atwood