Top 100 Women It Quotes
#1. Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem.
Bruce Willis
#2. My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#3. The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
Nora Ephron
#4. Women, it is said, are inferior, amoral, animal and satanic. In which case, being born is either insulting, or meaningless.
Patricia Storace
#5. We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.
Gioconda Belli
#6. There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#7. Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.
Eve Ensler
#8. I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.
Mark Twain
#9. No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman
#10. It was often that way with women, it seemed. One minute Lorie would be drilling holes in him with her eyes, and the next minute she and Clarie would be combing one another's hair and singing tunes.
Larry McMurtry
#11. If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
Coco Chanel
#12. There's no such thing as a glass ceiling for women. It's just a thick layer of men.
Laura A. Liswood
#13. I think that everyone wants sexy hair, and when they think of sexy hair they think of volume - they don't think about flat, limp, lifeless hair. But for some women, it's hard to achieve because we're constantly buying these volumizing shampoos [that] leave a residue in your hair ...
Chrissy Teigen
#14. I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by my sister, Elena, who is one year older than me. I used to hang out with her all the time, and whenever I travelled, I used to buy her clothes and style her.
Mario Testino
#15. On Satan the color red is one thing; on women, it is altogether another
Marion Roach
#16. I would (have sex with another woman). Sometimes I feel attracted to other women. It's almost more exciting to watch women getting it on than men ...
Sofia Hellqvist
#17. Never apologize to women. It only confirms that you were wrong, and incenses them further.
Lisa Kleypas
#18. Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.
Patricia Nell Warren
#19. There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money ... Jennifer Lawrence ... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
Patrick Whitesell
#20. I can't tell you the number of times people have told me if I just lost 10kg, I could go much further in my career. But I'm determined to show them - and other average-size women - it is doable and possible.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#21. Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.
Cory Booker
#22. When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#23. To be a man, watched by women. It must be entirely strange. To have them watching him all the time. To have them wondering, What's he going to do next?
Margaret Atwood
#24. To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.
James Ellroy
#25. So even if I'm getting intelligent and learning a lot of new things, he thinks I'm still a boy about women. It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.
Daniel Keyes
#26. He was never long between women. It was after the thrill had passed and the intimacy became real that he found it difficult. He didn't like talking about his past and he didn't trust promises.
Lisa Ballantyne
#27. 1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us"
2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest"
3. "oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty
Beth Hoffman
#28. If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
Erica Jong
#29. If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#30. The laughter was sour and not really directed at white women. It was a traditional ruse that was used to shield the black vulnerability; we laughed to keep from crying.
Maya Angelou
#31. The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.
Terry Pratchett
#32. He's coming to hate the gratitude of women. It is like being fawned on by rabbits, or like being covered with syrup: you can't get it off.
Margaret Atwood
#33. You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.
Anna Faris
#34. Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It's incredible.
Jamie Oliver
#35. And indeed, human beings in general are fond, even inordinately fond, of being trampled on, have you noticed that? But of women it's especially true. One might even say they that can't get along without it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#36. For men, life is a highway. For women it is a roadmap.
Allison Pearson
#37. Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.
Jacky Fleming
#38. To me, my brand is luxury, it's art, it's women, it's raw, it's urban.
Theophilus London
#39. Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years ... it's called cash.
Alonzo Bodden
#40. If I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have.
Nick Hornby
#41. I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina Jolie
#42. You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind.
I know you hate Americans, but
I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn't matter to me what country you're from. You women are fucking stupid, and I'm tired of saving you. All of you.
Allie Burke
#43. Marriage isn't between man & women. It's between God & you and divorce is not an option
Kloby
#44. Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
Peter Mullan
#45. The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.
Marlene Dumas
#46. Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis
#47. When you can't handle the heady concoction of wine and women, it's time to pack up your bags and quit.
Anurag Shourie
#48. Our nominal morality has been formulated by priests and mentally enslaved women. It is time that men who have to take a normal part in the normal life of the world learned to rebel against this sickly nonsense.
Bertrand Russell
#49. Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off.
Eve Ensler
#50. Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#51. I'll tell you that whatever you feel for anyone, however much love's inside you, there's more of it when you have a child. You can't understand it until you've experienced it. And it doesn't change as they grow into men, into women. It just grows with them. It should be me in there, and not my boy.
J.D. Robb
#52. I enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons: It represses women, it's generally illegal.
Dan Maffei
#53. Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.
Jane Fonda
#54. Makeup is for women. It's the law of nature for them to doll themselves up to get a man."
"On the contrary. [ ... ] In the natural world, it is the male of the species who is adorned with colors to attract, impress and keep his potential mate.
Dawn Flemington
#55. Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan
#56. I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
K.d. Lang
#57. The new millennium won't be about sexual labels; it'll be about sexual expression. It won't matter if you're sleeping with men or women. It'll be about sleeping with individuals. Soon everyone will be pansexual. It won't matter if you're gay or straight.
Kim Cattrall
#58. America has but one main problem
the character of the men and women it shall produce.
Calvin Coolidge
#59. We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?
Sarah Addison Allen
#60. Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.
Gabrielle Giffords
#61. Charlotte leveled him with a glare the likes of which he had never seen in synthetic women. It seemed to penetrate his every cell, as though she were watching him decay one picosecond at a time
Madeline Ashby
#62. The world hasn't changed. It's full of men who hate women. It's stuffed to the gills with assholes who will mount an attack on a stranger just because she's female and they're small-minded monkey-boys with an inferiority complex.
The world hasn't changed, but I have.
Robin York
#63. I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It's about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you're having, and lending your support to other women. It's empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.
Melanie Brown
#64. Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
Narciso Rodriguez
#65. I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.
Nick Jonas
#66. The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.
John Lennon
#67. Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.
Pope Francis
#68. Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#69. Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.
Tony Kornheiser
#70. That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.
Gloria Steinem
#71. It is not the lack of wit or intellect that shallow men crave [in women], it is lack of personality; they desire a woman who will exist only as a shadow to themselves, because this gives them the illusion that they have some importance, that they are more than cattle.
Steven Brust
#72. I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
Patricia Ireland
#73. She had often dreamed of going to a teahouse to play chess or argue esoteric scholarly points with students and feisty old men and women. It was a dream forbidden to a royal princess, of course.
Liz Braswell
#74. Duty to his wife. Duty to his children. Duty to work, to committees, to charities. Duty to Lynette. Duty to the other women. It was exhausting. It demanded stamina. At times he amazed even himself.
Richard Flanagan
#75. I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#76. 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
#77. Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
William Faulkner
#78. I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#79. Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.
James Fox
#80. Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
Sheri L. Dew
#81. If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
Camille Paglia
#83. Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.
Ann Rule
#84. If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
#85. The work that I have been doing on television has been important to me because I have had the opportunity to portray very strong, intelligent women. It has been such a privilege to depict a woman that is independent, unapologetic, and resilient on both shows.
Amanda Schull
#86. Leadership isn't the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It's a process ordinary people use when they're bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.
James M. Kouzes
#87. My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
Iggy Azalea
#88. I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.
Chris O'Dowd
#89. If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean.
Torrie Wilson
#90. Not that he wanted to say that. It would make it sound as if he wanted to blame her..
Women were very complicated creatures. He suddenly realised he was running through his head a list of everything he considered preferable to women. It was a long and most impressive imaginary document.
Peter David
#91. BESIDES THE CONVERSATION of women, it is dreams that keep the world in orbit. But dreams also form a diadem of moons, therefore the sky is that splendour inside a man's head, if his head is not, in fact, his own unique sky.
Jose Saramago
#92. Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!
Emily Martin
#93. When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny
Dennis Prager
#94. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz
#95. While it is in no way racist for any author to write a book exclusively about white women, it is fundamentally racist for books to be published that focus solely on the American white woman's experience in which that experience is assumed to be the American woman's experience.
Bell Hooks
#96. Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for freedom.
Andrea Dworkin
#97. It is not Islam that oppresses Muslim women, it is the lack of knowledge or the lack of application of that knowledge that oppresses.
Na'ima B. Robert
#98. For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.
Elisabeth Badinter
#99. Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around
Gregory David Roberts
#100. My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
Hans Rosling
