Top 100 Women S Quotes
#1. Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations.
Sue Monk Kidd
#2. We have let Eros mean slavery, but Eros also has the power to set us free. We must demand the right to depict women's lives as we know them, not as we might like them to be. We must stop applying political prescriptions to creativity.
Erica Jong
#3. I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
Sam Kinison
#5. Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.
Jim Kaat
#6. Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
Valentine De Saint-Point
#7. Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!
Jim Ross
#8. Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
Charles Dickens
#10. I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.
Ani DiFranco
#11. Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Erica Jong
#12. It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
Rachel Cusk
#13. Mullahs from the TNSM preached that the earthquake was a warning from God. They said it was caused by women's freedom and obscenity. If we did not mend our ways and introduce sharia or Islamic law, they shouted in their thundering voices, more severe punishment would come.
Malala Yousafzai
#14. Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.
Emma Watson
#15. The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.
Junot Diaz
#16. Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further
Nikhil Sharda
#17. There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.
Gina Carano
#18. Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.
Corin Tucker
#19. Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods.
Naomi Wolf
#20. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
Elaine Heffner
#21. I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
Olympia Dukakis
#22. I'm very pleased to be recognising International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the achievements of women across the world.
Theresa May
#23. I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.
Elena Delle Donne
#25. We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.
Ricky Whittle
#26. It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.
Barack Obama
#27. The Republicans won the women's vote in 2010. It was the first time since Ronald Reagan that the Republicans had won the women's vote. And when you look at the issues that really drove women to the Republican Party, it's been the issues related to the economy, to jobs, the debt.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#28. In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women's household chores from the category of productive work and, for the first time, housewives were classified as unoccupied.
Gabrielle Palmer
#29. Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
Warren Farrell
#31. The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.
Jill Abramson
#32. Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.
Hollis Stacy
#33. Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and - necessarily - that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work.
Ariel Levy
#34. Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
Karen DeCrow
#35. As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work.
Colleen Hanabusa
#36. I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.
Lena Dunham
#37. Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.
Helen Fisher
#38. And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women's rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.
Gwenn Wright
#39. Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.
Heather Mitts
#40. The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.'
Catherine Jinks
#41. When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
Betty Friedan
#42. Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.
Liz Phair
#43. Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women's, it fills all the room it finds.
John Crowne
#44. I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
Quentin Bryce
#45. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women's morality means that nothing else matters- not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That's all.
Jessica Valenti
#46. You have to admit, his voice gets you wetter than a cucumber in a women's prison
Nicole Reed
#48. There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
Adrienne Rich
#49. The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.
Michael Kimmel
#50. What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
Meghan O'Rourke
#51. The flash lights irritated the women's eyes, but in the sudden glare their faces, so empty of expression when they had sex, at last came alive, and I saw two bluecollar housewives who had ditched their husbands and aspired to the most bourgeois of lives.
J.G. Ballard
#52. The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women's inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.
Molly Haskell
#53. As Katha Pollitt puts it: US invasions have made the work of Muslim feminists much more difficult. The last thing they need is for women's rights to be branded as the tool of the invaders and occupiers and cultural imperialists.11
Nina Power
#54. I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.
Marta
#56. What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
Julie Carmen
#57. Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.
Cynthia Heimel
#58. Democrats will say the money they give to Planned Parenthood does not go to abortions. That the money they give to Planned Parenthood only goes to other women's health issues, including mammograms and things like that.
Chuck Todd
#60. There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.
Michelle Wie
#61. One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.
Charlotte Rampling
#62. My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.
James Wolk
#63. It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.
Cybill Shepherd
#64. We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.
Stephane Simian
#65. What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.
Susan Collins
#66. A lot of people like to justify women's supporting role in sports media by saying, 'Well, they've never played the game, so they just aren't qualified to speak about it.'
Katie Nolan
#67. Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
Richard Roeper
#68. When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.
Christine Sinclair
#69. All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.
Walt Whitman
#70. Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.
Erica Jong
#71. There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.
Jon Voight
#72. though he's wrong about how these methods work. It's religion - facts don't matter, especially when the facts involve women's liberty.
Katha Pollitt
#73. Given the National Organization for Women's membership and proclivities, it's no wonder that people now view the NOW gang as being obsessed with only two issues: abortion rights and lesbian rights.
Rush Limbaugh
#74. I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
Ida Lupino
#75. I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy
#76. You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.
P.G. Wodehouse
#77. It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.
Gwen Moore
#78. Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.
Rupert Hughes
#79. There are actually some men in the world who care more about a women's character than her physical appearance.
Jody Hedlund
#80. Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.
Isabel Allende
#81. When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.
Michael Moore
#82. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
Richard Stallman
#83. The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women.
Helen Fisher
#84. Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women's sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.
Jennie Finch
#85. Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
Andrea Dworkin
#86. Save the Children, an organization whose research has proved repeatedly that money in women's hands benefits families much more than money flowing to men.
Geraldine Brooks
#87. I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso - it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#88. Well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
Diana Gabaldon
#89. Women's liberation did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual; the visionary feminists of the late sixties and early seventies knew that women could never find freedom by agreeing to live the lives of unfree men.
Germaine Greer
#90. I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.
Louis L'Amour
#91. If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.
Jennifer Shahade
#92. The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.
Dustin Hoffman
#93. People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
Ellen Goodman
#94. Why love has to intense? Women's love isn't. It is a male contribution to a relationship. What does a woman contribute? Children continuity- intentional immortality.
Aporva Kala
#95. Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
Gloria Steinem
#96. The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard was the echo of their mourning.
Carsten Jensen
#97. Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.
Bella Abzug
#98. God crafted men's eyes and women's breast from the same material, I'm convinced. Whenever eyes wander toward cleavage, they're just trying to feel like they're home. It's also why breasts always know when they're being watched.
Adi Alsaid
#99. Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
Nicolas Chamfort
#100. Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.
Margaret Bourke-White
