Top 100 Women S Quotes

#1. In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'

Wale

#3. When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

Anne Hathaway

#4. There's a girl in this dress,
there's always a girl in distress.

Elvis Costello

#5. In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

W.S. Gilbert

#6. A women's college is a fine idea, and I hope it continues to flourish. Even if most of its students go on to dedicate themselves to hearth and home, their children will benefit for their mothers' educations.

Meredith Duran

#7. Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#8. In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.

Marcel Proust

#9. The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.

Dagmara Dominczyk

#10. Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way.

Vittorio Gassman

#11. I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

Michel Houellebecq

#12. Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we are all married with kids, in our late 30s and 40s. It's a different stage in our lives. It's not about who is going to be the one that's going to pop.

Roselyn Sanchez

#13. A harem is not a brothel, as so many Westerners erroneously believe. It is merely the women's living quarters. Male relatives can join them
but no male nonrelatives may do so. It is hardly a den of eroticism.

Phyllis Chesler

#14. I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or guilty, or child-laden, and what I'm really thinking is, If you really got it together, the option you would choose is mine.

Nora Ephron

#15. God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#16. Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

Chelsea Clinton

#17. That's your pitch to women? Let's get naked?" He snorted. "No wonder your balls are blue.

Nalini Singh

#18. There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper ...

May Sarton

#19. Christianity fucked men and women up. Men feel guilty and women have misguided anger. The result, a weak male. Fucking controls on our behaviour. It's like a sickness. A control sickness.

Robert Black

#20. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.

Nora Roberts

#21. I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

Joan Kirner

#22. He caught her eye. 'And? I'm jealous-minded and I sleep with too many women.'
Fire's smile grew. 'Luckily for you, I loved you long before either of those things.'
'But you don't love me as much as I love you,' he said. 'Which is what's made me this way.

Kristin Cashore

#23. Women's history is the
primary tool for women's emancipation.

Gerda Lerner

#24. What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.

Barack Obama

#25. Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford."
"Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women - changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.

Cinda Williams Chima

#26. I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

Kate Winslet

#27. When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.

Elizabeth George

#28. As women, we do feel like we have to live up to an expectation, whether it's on camera or going to the market or whatever it is. And the truth of the matter is, that's not always the way it is. We don't always have our high heels on, we don't always have our makeup on.

Jennifer Aniston

#29. Nothing is more uplifting than a woman's love and nothing is more dangerous than a woman's hatred.

Oliver Blade

#30. You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#31. Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

Garrett Hedlund

#33. I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.

Ayelet Waldman

#34. Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

Hanna Rosin

#35. That is so personal, and it's my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it's always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?

Zooey Deschanel

#36. A woman's belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.

Toni Sorenson

#37. A society can never be free without women's liberation

Abdullah Ocalan

#38. Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.

Gloria Steinem

#39. These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

Drake

#40. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Mary Gordon

#41. It's cool because you get to see that some of these women are there because they should be. They're actually not good people to be in society. And then, other people are there because they just made a really retarded mistake.

Laura Prepon

#42. Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it.

Jenny Eclair

#43. The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she's wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don't stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

Rachel Held Evans

#44. A fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if you only go at it right.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#45. This year's Olympics will be replacing the women's beach volleyball bikinis with uniforms that are less revealing. The stricter dress code was made to appease the conservative nation of 'Buzzkillistan.'

Conan O'Brien

#46. Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller.

Augustine Sam

#47. You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

George Wells Beadle

#48. My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation.

Charlaine Harris

#49. It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

Colleen McCullough

#50. We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

Warren Farrell

#51. When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

Elizabeth George

#52. What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused.

Terry McMillan

#53. There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.

Nia Long

#54. It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

Greg Giraldo

#55. Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me."
As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.

Maggie Nelson

#56. Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Stephanie Coontz

#57. A supportive husband is an absolute requirement for professional women ... He is something she looks for, and when she finds him, she marries him.

Alice S. Rossi

#58. There's a lot more emphasis placed on torsion and coil and leverage. Basically, the women are being taught very much along the same lines as the men. You don't have to consider strength as a factor so much. These girls are working out like fiends. It's a trend that's going to continue.

David Leadbetter

#59. She's floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.

Greg Iles

#60. I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit booty?

John Layfield

#61. If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Hillary Clinton

#62. Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Naomi Wolf

#63. If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.

Tina Turner

#64. other women's bodies
are not our battlegrounds

Rupi Kaur

#65. Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

Kenny Loggins

#66. Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Romola Garai

#67. It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#68. 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

#69. Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#70. I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

Melinda Clarke

#71. What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

Arthur Miller

#72. Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Mike Quigley

#73. This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

Maria Sharapova

#74. What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity? What would become of old women reading by candlelight? What would become of his own life-illusion, his secret 'mythology,' in such a world?

John Cowper Powys

#75. Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?'
'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast.

Nora Roberts

#76. 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

#77. When you need to set boundaries . . . They are the kind [of people] who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. 2 TIMOTHY 3:6

Beth Moore

#78. You women are all the same. You worry about the wrinkles and the half stone and your boobs dropping, but you don't worry about the sparkle, and that's the best bit. You shouldn't let that go.

Elizabeth Noble

#79. A nathion is as strong as the hearts of its women. It's warriors may be brave and many, but when the blood of it's women spills upon the earth, the battle is lost.

Pam Godwin

#80. From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S.W.T), and to guide society in the right path with all the power they have.

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

#81. If you don't like men who physically abuse women, stop telling your son it's okay to hit a little girl if she's bothering him.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#82. When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.

S. E. Cupp

#83. It is not possible that it is God's will that women are making 77 cents on a dollar.

Thomas Perez

#84. It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.

Eleanor Smeal

#85. I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#86. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.

Graham Greene

#87. It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Gloria Steinem

#88. Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Kiki Smith

#89. The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

Dick Morris

#90. If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

Sendhil Mullainathan

#91. Girlfriends are not wives. I draw the line at married women. Actually, women married to men with guns. If someone's girlfriend wants to make herself available, that's her business. Just don't give my name to your boyfriend.

Jack Dancer

#92. Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

Gao Xingjian

#93. Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

David Duchovny

#94. There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

Rachel Cusk

#95. There's a saying about ranch women. When they're 30, they look 50. When they're 80, they look 50.

Craig Lancaster

#96. I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.

Rodney Dangerfield

#97. I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

Sherry Glaser

#98. Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#99. I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

Evan Goldberg

#100. None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.

Anita Borg

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