Top 100 Women But Quotes
#1. There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
Tori Amos
#2. I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?
James Blunt
#3. American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.
George Packer
#4. I don't understand you, Pigeon. I thought I knew women, but you're so fucking confusing I don't know which way is up."
"I don't understand you, either. You're supposed to be Eastern's ladies' man. I'm not getting the full freshmen experience they promised in the brochure," I teased.
Jamie McGuire
#5. It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
Muriel Spark
#6. I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.
Elizabeth Arden
#7. Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them
Tariq Ramadan
#8. I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good.
Sonia Sotomayor
#9. This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to be sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.
Daniel J. Rice
#10. In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.
Rory McCann
#11. I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
Barry Humphries
#12. People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.
Jenny Lawson
#13. I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
Buchi Emecheta
#14. He's gods' blessed. He can do more than one thing at once. Be an idiot and be responsible. He has these multiple skills."
"Much like women, but they're not called gods' blessed. They're just called women.
Melina Marchetta
#15. 'I'm sorry,' guys are always telling women, 'but I'm just not ready to make a commitment.' Guys are in a permanent state of nonreadiness. If guys were turkey breasts, you could put them in a 350-degree oven on July Fourth, and they still wouldn't be done in time for Thanksgiving.
Dave Barry
#16. There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.
Orville Dewey
#17. I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.
Sonya Walger
#18. None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
Mary Astell
#19. It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.
Todd Haynes
#20. For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt ... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
Paul Feig
#21. On balance, I'd say I prefer performing in front of a few thousand adoring women, but 'Security Guard at the Castle of the Damned' comes a pretty close second. I should be fine, as long as there are no ghosts.
Tabitha McGowan
#22. Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.
Ashton Kutcher
#23. You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money
Foster "Raul" Mkhabele
#24. The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.
Meredith Brooks
#25. There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#26. Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.
Susan Cheever
#27. A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.
Earl Wilson
#28. We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.
Robert Webb
#29. The careers that I admire and actually try to emulate are those of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. Those women, to me, make amazing choices. They're sexy, beautiful women, but that doesn't dictate their choices.
Eva Mendes
#30. I have heard the word 'stunning' used to describe women, but this was the first time I had actually been stunned by one.
Graeme Simsion
#31. Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old character women. But that's what's always happened. Work out how you can fit into it, and make that work. There are never going to be millions of parts for older actresses because there never were.
Joanna Lumley
#32. There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.
Ilana Glazer
#33. We weren't idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with the highest kind of ambition - not to get rich or to impress women, but to make our mark as Proust and Joyce had made their mark.
John Updike
#34. I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
Kurt Cobain
#35. The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with 800 people in the room. And during that time, all these guys and some women, but mostly guys who weren't funny were doing stand up for a living; they weren't accountants, they were making $30-$50 grand a year on the road, or more.
Bob Saget
#36. Like myself, President Obama is the father of two daughters. He understands the obstacles that they face as women, but he also understands the emergency of the state of young black men in America.
Al Sharpton
#37. I've been with a lot of women, but who's counting? It's nothing I'm proud of. It's a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it's so meaningless.
Mickey Rourke
#38. Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.
Ashton Kutcher
#39. I always want to write erotic music ... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe ... about life.
Toru Takemitsu
#40. The kind of boy's club I'm used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, 'I'm sensitive and nerdy,' but actually, it's like, 'You're a huge child and you're terrified of women, but you don't like sports, so you think that makes you less of a misogynist.'
Julie Klausner
#41. If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
Eve Best
#42. Brasley still drank too much and liked his women, but at least he paced himself now, walking the path to self-destruction instead of sprinting down it at full speed.
Victor Gischler
#43. Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.
Eleanor Smeal
#44. It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)
Stephen King
#45. People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.
Emily Eden
#46. I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.
Darren Star
#47. I've always been attracted to independent women, but the idea that someone could be independent and still kind of put herself second at times was pretty interesting.
Taye Diggs
#48. Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
Elisabeth Moss
#49. There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
Marguerite Young
#50. Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
Charles Simeon
#51. After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.
Anna Godbersen
#52. In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
Gloria Steinem
#53. Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#54. The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads ...
Katharine Susannah Prichard
#55. not even as three women, but merely as three creatures who still possessed the need to eat but took no pleasure in it, the need to sleep but from no joy in weariness or regeneration
William Faulkner
#56. There are three different takes on career women in this house, she thought to herself: that of my husband, who respects working women but wishes I wasn't one of them; that of my mother, who hates the very idea; and then there's me, a working woman who has no idea what she really wants! There
Ayse Kulin
#57. Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.
Emma Watson
#58. see the stories of women, but they are always stuck inside the stories of men. Why is that?
Lidia Yuknavitch
#59. It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
Camille Paglia
#61. Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde
#62. I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.
Norman Mailer
#63. We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.
Camille Paglia
#64. I think it's a feminine energy, not necessarily men versus women, but a nurturing, mothering, loving energy. I think definitely. But I think you need a balance of both. I think right now we're just so in the extremes and people are just conditioned and given these gender assignments very early on.
Evan Rachel Wood
#65. [W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#66. I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
Karl Kraus
#67. Less than two dozen men and women - but mostly men - operated
Hugh Howey
#68. No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.
John Shelton Reed
#69. Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off
Mikhail Bulgakov
#70. 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
#71. She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as beautiful and pure as that. Real things had happened to her to make her how she was and I wanted to know them, and read them, like a book.
David Mitchell
#72. Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*.
Thom Yorke
#73. I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
Harold Pinter
#74. For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.
Louis Simpson
#75. A guy can love a million women. But a man, a man loves one woman a million ways.
Gregg Hurwitz
#76. It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.
Andrew Dominik
#77. I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.
Chris Brown
#78. Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
Willem Dafoe
#79. I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion of golfing is the last thing I would want to do. I love women, but I'm also a mama's boy, and some of my best friends are women. So I'm kinda half guy's guy.
Jim Gaffigan
#80. I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.
Grace Jones
#81. We slept, all six of us, beneath a wooden roof that let in the stars, warming one another, our legs intermingled. I dreamed: and in my dreams saw women. But my heart, stained with bloodshed, grated and brimmed over.
Isaac Babel
#82. There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.
Elise Andrew
#83. Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
Warren Farrell
#84. Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#85. To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#86. Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.
Annette Bening
#87. Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves.
Kathryn Finney
#88. Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.
Amy Richards
#89. White feminism has bred far too many mean girls who think they are fighting for all women but who are really fighting just for the ones who look like them. Let
Luvvie Ajayi
#90. I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.
Rachel Weisz
#91. Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.
Susan Griffin
#92. Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
Sextus Propertius
#93. Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
Ioan Gruffudd
#94. 28Lord, forgive me, my parents, and whoever enters my house as a believer. Forgive believing men and women but bring nothing but ruin down on the evildoers!
Anonymous
#95. Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
Eleanor Catton
#96. I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.
Ted Nugent
#97. I've sometimes thought ... that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.
James M. Barrie
#98. I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it.
Kylie Minogue
#99. One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American men - and women, but I'm a man, so that's what I can talk about - who feel the American dream has let them down.
James Purefoy
#100. I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead
Sarah MacLean
