Top 100 Women Can Quotes
#1. See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#2. We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.
George W. Bush
#3. While it would be as wrong of me to attribute these traits to women at the exclusion of men as it would be for a man to do the reverse, I think women can often be very strong team players and good communicators and collaborators.
Diane Nelson
#4. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours ... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.
Boyd K. Packer
#5. Don't be scared ... Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.
Gayle Forman
#6. Fashion is not enough anymore. It's not just about what you wear. I mean, I don't know how many women can afford to take the time to come to Paris for three fittings.
Alber Elbaz
#7. Some women can handle a one-night stand. Others can't. And I have definitely been on the wrong end of those who can't. It ain't pretty.
Emma Chase
#8. Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.
Carolina Herrera
#9. Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.
Zadie Smith
#10. My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science ...
M. Carey Thomas
#11. Women can be the most fearful about letting men off the white horse and the most likely to be critical of their vulnerability.
Brene Brown
#12. There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.
Betty Williams
#13. Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
Al Franken
#14. The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
Thomas Szasz
#15. There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
Alexander Wang
#16. Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
Hanna Rosin
#17. Guns and women can make an atom bombing look like an ice cream social.
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. We need to have a president that's going to pledge, as I have - I'm going to make America the number-one manufacturer so working men and women can have good paying jobs again in America.
Rick Santorum
#19. Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.
Maria Bartiromo
#20. I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. As a fourth-degree black-belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and that's something that we should start to implement for a lot of women.
Nia Sanchez
#21. Women can't add, he once said, jokingly. When I asked him what he meant, he said, For them, one and one and one and one don't make four. What do they make? I said, expecting five or three. Just one and one and one and one, he said.
Margaret Atwood
#22. Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.
Leo Tolstoy
#23. You know, any man can get any woman he wants if he tries hard enough, there's nothing in that, but once he's got her, only a man who thinks the world of women can get rid of her without humiliating her.
W. Somerset Maugham
#24. Yes, I do strive to be someone young women can look up to.
Chyler Leigh
#25. You can't cure trauma when violence is ongoing, so the primary effort must be working for peace. You can't negotiate a lasting peace without bringing women into the effort, but women can't become peacemakers without releasing the pain that keeps them from feeling their own strength.
Leymah Gbowee
#26. Two women can't share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It's got to be one woman's kitchen.
Nora Roberts
#28. Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.
Elinor Gadon
#29. The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.
Anita Borg
#30. Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.
Crystal Eastman
#31. I've only slept with the men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
Elizabeth Taylor
#32. Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'.
Jeffrey Bernard
#33. I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.
Grace Kelly
#35. Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.
Anja Rubik
#36. Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only drunks and menstruating women can manage.
G.M. Ford
#37. It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies.
Laura Schlessinger
#38. man can not live on chocolate .... but women can
Hannah
#39. What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
Calvin Coolidge
#40. 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
#42. I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.
Diane Kruger
#43. A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
Radclyffe Hall
#44. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.
Djimon Hounsou
#45. And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language.
Emily Croy Barker
#46. Distil drops of bitterness into her heart; sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles; and sometimes, also, by a coarser expression, that fell upon the sufferer's defenceless breast like a rough blow upon an ulcerated wound.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#47. We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.
Emily Murphy
#48. I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'
Aimee Mann
#49. The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
Cornel West
#50. I imagine he's married. Or was ... He seems damaged in the way that only we women can damage men.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#51. I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'
Dilma Rousseff
#52. If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization ... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?
Frances E. Willard
#53. When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.
Pervez Musharraf
#54. Women can only see beyond what their fragile heart wants to believe when they are in love.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.
Christine Nixon
#56. As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.
Gloria Steinem
#57. The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do ... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal ...
Ani DiFranco
#58. At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.
Herbert Croly
#59. Women can do it all but that doesn't mean they should have to.
Toni Sorenson
#60. Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
Annie Lennox
#61. Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can dois to write, for in the act of writing we deny our mutedness and beginto eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.
Dale Spender
#62. I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
Louise Erdrich
#63. After centuries of dormancy, young women ... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#65. Tejano music was hard for us because I was a girl. My dad had a lot of problems while trying to set up shows for us or presentations because there are a lot of men who don't think that women can get the attention of the public. But ... wrong!
Selena
#66. You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#67. Oooh, hey, sex camp! Yeah. That's the ticket. We need to start a sex camp where women can tell their hubbies they're going to a fat farm and instead of the boot camp diet with Nazi dieticians, they go to the beach and have hot men treat them like goddesses! (Chrissy)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. Quiet down," said Falin. "Didn't you say something about an ambush and a murderer?"
"Crap, yes," said Marcus, and pulled Kira down behind the escalator. "Also: murderess. Don't be sexist, women can murder people too.
Dan Wells
#69. Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
Helen Rowland
#70. I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
Gail Sheehy
#71. But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect.
Anthony Trollope
#72. In work, it is possible to find commitment, attachment, chemistry, and connection. In fact, it's high time that more people acknowledged the electric pull that women can feel for their profession, the exciting heat of ambition and frisson of success.
Rebecca Traister
#73. But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
Katherine Dunn
#74. Women know when men don't desire them: ghosts and witches, deities and demons, angels of death - even virgins, even ordinary women. They always know; women can tell when you have stopped desiring them.
John Irving
#75. I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.
Rachel Roy
#76. some women can steal your heart by their beauty, some can steal your mind by their intelligence and others can steal your soul by their presence. But if you meet the one who can steal your everything without doing anything, that's the one made for you.' He
Savi Sharma
#77. 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
#78. When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.
Marya Mannes
#79. As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping.
Darren Shan
#80. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
Agatha Christie
#81. Some women barter their bodies like whores with wedding bands. Some use sex like a sword. But some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus.
Paula Wall
#82. Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.
Amber Valletta
#83. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.
Alber Elbaz
#84. Women can be strong, Colum. Very strong when they have to be or when they're forced to be. On the outside we are like little rose petals, all soft and sweet, but on the inside we're often made of something a lot tougher because we have to be
Carolyn Brown
#85. I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality.
Stuart Rose
#86. 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
#87. Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
Clare Boothe Luce
#88. It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.
Jenny Slate
#89. A women can hold a grudge for a long time. The longer it simmers, the longer the grudge lasts and I advise you to get this straightened out quick like fashion.
Georgia Cates
#90. Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
Dan Savage
#91. Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty women can bestow. Mr. Darcy
Jane Austen
#92. Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
Sojourner Truth
#93. That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#94. Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.
Paul Morabito
#95. Women can build stability. We can make peace.
Hawa Abdi
#96. Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.
Mukhtar Ma'i
#97. Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
Wilson Mizner
#98. I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.
Martina Mcbride
#99. Women! Can't live with 'em, no resale value.
Jerry Lawler
#100. I don't understand women at all.
Like how a women can pour boiling hot wax onto their upper thigh, then rip the hair out by the root ... and still be afraid of a spider.
Jerry Seinfeld
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