Women Of Substance Quotes

#1. I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

Lisa Cholodenko

#2. When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.

Rory Kennedy

#3. 'Vogue' celebrates plenty of women of substance.

Tina Brown

#4. If there be any Gods at all, of which I am not even certain, I cannot believe they would stoop to meddle in the affairs of men. Nor will I wait upon the Gods to do what I see clearly must be done - who's to say that the Goddess cannot work through my hand as well as another.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#5. As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

Nelson Mandela

#6. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.

George Orwell

#7. She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.

Angela Carter

#8. God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be

Emilie Autumn

#10. What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

Tanith Lee

#11. Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. MTV refers to its audience as 'the demo.' Being 'in the demo' means being in the demographic sweet spot that advertisers want their programming to hit, which is ideally between 18 and 24.

John Seabrook

#13. ... it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate beds, greedy for the substance of their own lives, but obliged every day to reinvent themselves.

Carol Shields

#14. There was no hiding when you had a face all up in your love glove.

Belle Aurora

#15. People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Bernard De Mandeville

#16. Surely, I find myself daydreaming, there is something, some substance already in common use, that women could drink after sex or at the end of the month, that would keep them unpregnant with no one the wiser.

Katha Pollitt

#17. Some run the cliffs, and set upon an eagle's wings. Others mire in the den, and once within, can never leave again.

Chris Galford

#18. It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges.

Jenny Downham

#19. Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy ...

Winifred Holtby

#20. The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Harriet Martineau

#21. A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.

Fay Weldon

#22. Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

Joseph A. Califano Jr.