Top 100 Women Who Quotes
#1. Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.
Margaret M. Lock
#2. I have a theory that it is always the women who propose to us, and not we who propose to the women.
Oscar Wilde
#3. In my experience the most forceful and aggressive mothers are always the least inspired, the most unmusical of souls, all of them profoundly unsuccessful women who wear their daughter's image on their breast like a medal, like a bright deflection from their own unshining selves.
Eleanor Catton
#4. Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.
Germaine Greer
#5. I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.
Kathleen Turner
#6. Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
Bill McKibben
#7. ...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled against that paradigm...[Mr. Gregory's Mother]
Sveva Casati Modignani
#8. I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
Deidre Hall
#9. African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well.
Frank C. Garland
#10. I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating.
Elizabeth Reaser
#11. My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.
Lucille Kallen
#12. It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.
Paul Eldridge
#13. Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
Dale Spender
#14. Christianity is not a religion that offers the solace of revenge to its adherents. For that you must go to the old women who know which herbs to pluck and what charms to say under a waning moon.
Bernard Cornwell
#15. It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.
Lindsey Vonn
#16. No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.
Mario Testino
#17. Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.
Ayelet Waldman
#18. Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
Keith Henson
#19. It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
Oscar Wilde
#20. A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.
Susanne Bier
#21. In any group of women who are all equally good-looking, the number of messages they get is highly correlated to the variance: from the pageant queens to the most homely women to the people right in between, the individuals who get the most affection will be the polarizing ones.
Christian Rudder
#22. I've never, ever, ever
in my entire life
fought over a man.
I've fought women who've hit me because of a man, but then I was fighting to bust her ass, not defend his.
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#23. Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
Erica Jong
#24. She was one of those women who clearly hadn't accepted she wasn't nineteen anymore,
Raven St. Pierre
#25. Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.
Lianne La Havas
#26. Those Yalta nights, with extraordinary women who could drink vodka without swooning until six in the morning and sweaty young people from the Association of Proletarian Writers of Crimea who came to ask for literary advice at four in the afternoon.
Roberto Bolano
#27. Although we are feminists and lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand.
Combahee River Collective
#28. I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and while I cherish my Catholic upbringing and the foundation that it poured in my faith, that had not been a part of my experience.
Mike Pence
#29. One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.
Shirley Chisholm
#30. There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
Adam Savage
#31. I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
Mariella Frostrup
#32. Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy
#33. Models should just be beautiful women who inspire others. They won't be starving themselves because they are being accepted for themselves. Any thinner than today's ideals would be impossible. Any thinner means dead.
Crystal Renn
#34. Lesson for young men: if you want your eventual wife to be excited about sucking your dick for forty years, don't create a generation of women who think enthusiasm about sex is a bad thing.
Anna Kendrick
#36. It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.
George W. Bush
#37. The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.
Dave Barry
#38. The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
Pearl S. Buck
#39. One of the most positive things about America is just like what we're all doing here today. We're standing on Jensen Beach, we're watching a beautiful sunrise over the Atlantic. It's all because of men and women who were willing to make a sacrifice so that we can enjoy these freedoms.
Allen West
#40. I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.
Jill Abramson
#41. Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.
Jenny Nordberg
#42. I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing - or who have worn - our country's uniform and to their spouses: when you have finished your service to our nation, you've got 2,000 great American companies ready and waiting to bring you on board
Michelle Obama
#43. That my most important values are honesty, empathy, and intellectual curiosity. That I'm unwilling to tolerate women who don't make me happy, no matter how hot they are.
Mark Manson
#44. I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.
Pope Francis
#45. Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further
Nikhil Sharda
#46. Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
Gale Sayers
#47. THE MISCONCEPTION: Men who have sex with RealDolls are insane, and women who marry eighty-year-old billionaires are gold diggers. THE TRUTH: The RealDoll and rich old sugar daddies are both supernormal releasers.
David McRaney
#48. Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
Carre Otis
#49. Because we; out of our love for these women who hold our hearts in their hands, have and still would do all manner of things to keep them safe." Hill gave a half shrug. "I'd say we finally know what it's like to have the tables turned.
AlTonya Washington
#50. Babies born to women who are infected with hep B - and mothers can carry the virus without their knowledge - will almost certainly be infected if they are not vaccinated within twelve hours of birth.
Eula Biss
#51. Women who display themselves as sex objects do not represent women as a gender anymore than the chippendales or Ron Jeremy represent you. Women are not a homogenous group who all get together to decide how or who they will be.
Anonymouse
#52. Everyone, including the women who said they were happily married, said they wanted their daughters and granddaughters to approach marriage differently from how they had.
Aziz Ansari
#54. We need to support these women who are in crisis pregnancy situations.
Kathy Ireland
#55. Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.
Bobby Riggs
#56. Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?
Laurent Blanc
#57. I state in my book 'Become Your Own Matchmaker,' confidence is the key to any endeavor. Women don't realize that when they do things they love and are passionate about - their confidence soars. Men are attracted to women who feel happy and decisive about life.
Patti Stanger
#58. Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Samuel Richardson
#60. Men should always aim for women who they consider to be 'out of their league
Alice Walsh
#61. There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
Ann Oakley
#62. The prostitutes were from the lowest social levels and, like all women who catered to foreign men, came to be called rashamen, "Western sheep," and were ostracized from Japanese society. 29 From this group of Japanese women the Western artists and photographers found their models.
Eleanor M. Hight
#63. Among us lived every spirit conceivable. Men who loved women, women who loved men. Women who loved women, men who loved men. These were not choices but life assignments. Everyone had one.
Daniel Black
#64. Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?
Haruki Murakami
#65. Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.
Max Frisch
#66. On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#67. Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even those women who were flattered by such attention, rarely understood.
Gay Talese
#68. I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.
Emily Saliers
#69. You know what they say about angels?" she asked.
"That they have wings and a halo?"
"No, that they are just wild women who've had the hell screwed out of them," she said with another giggle.
Carolyn Brown
#70. Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice ...
Sathya Sai Baba
#71. There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
Nelson Mandela
#72. I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, psychologically, often physically. It's all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we're all being denied our rights.
Gloria Allred
#73. Please hear me, Girl: The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things.
Ann Voskamp
#74. Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who ... love truly and honestly without demanding that they be loved in return.
Stasi Eldredge
#75. It's fat women who are really beautiful. The fatter the better.
Antonio Olinto
#76. The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#78. I don't mind comments saying things about me. I do mind them saying things about those young, brave men and women who have volunteered. That's offensive to me that people would say those kind of comments about Americans who have volunteered to take the fight to the enemy.
George W. Bush
#79. Only after I saw women who were attracted to distant, condescending, even violent men did I begin to understand that having a distant, condescending, even violent father could make those qualities seem inevitable, even feel like home. Because of my father, only kindness felt like home.
Gloria Steinem
#80. When the sound of victorious guns burst over London at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, the men and women who looked incredulously into each other's faces did not cry jubilantly: " We've won the war! " They only said: " The War is over.
Vera Brittain
#81. I know a lot of aesthetically beautiful women who are not nice people, and they do not come across as beautiful to me. I think the number one thing for beauty is a smile. I love a woman with a beautiful smile.
Sara Foster
#82. I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
Madeleine Albright
#83. She felt like a real bitch. But that was a good thing. Bitch was a good word. Women who were aggressive and strong were tagged as bitches. She should buy herself a T-shirt that read Proud to be called a bitch.
Suzanne Brockmann
#84. Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.
Liza Johnson
#85. E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.
Lynne Cheney
#87. What drives abortion bans and restrictions? The belief that women who have sex for pleasure rather than procreation are sluts.
Leora Tanenbaum
#88. A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
Anna Magnani
#89. I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
Maureen Reagan
#90. Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us,
Sandra Fluke
#91. If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.
Coco Chanel
#92. Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.
Lynn Coady
#93. Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
Vera Wang
#94. If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
Maeve Binchy
#95. I don't want to be one of those women who says horrible things about her husband, but your father had no right to take the hammer. I had that hammer when we were still dating, and he damn well knew it.
A.M. Homes
#96. To understand women who look both ways requires hearing their stories, not just noting the sex of their current partner. And when you listen closely, it's apparent these women have learned something crucial in these relationships.
Jennifer Baumgardner
#97. Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
Nellie L. McClung
#98. Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#99. You want to be commander in chief, you can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.
Barack Obama
#100. There was a group of fans who wanted autographs, and several women who managed to write their phone numbers on Wade's hand before he pulled free.
Sam sent him an arched brow, but he just shrugged. He got numbers written on him a lot; he'd never figured out how to stop that from happening.
Jill Shalvis
