Women's Voices Quotes

#1. To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.

Gina Barreca

#2. Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#3. I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#4. Women's voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.

Lucia Berlin

#5. Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world,

Padma Lakshmi

#6. Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

Sandra Fluke

#7. I first got interested in music as a toddler by my childhood babysitter, Rosetta Atkins. She taught me how to sing by imitating the voices on the gospel radio station she listened to - both men and women's voices.

Wendy Starland

#8. It's raining women's voices
as if they had died
even in memory,
and it's raining you as well-
Marvellous encounters of my life
(o little drops!)

Guillaume Apollinaire

#9. I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know.

Judy Horacek

#10. Even for women without children, trading hours that produce income for hours that produce "only" art seems like a foolish decision. What a loss for the world, though, to have women's voices silenced because art is our last priority.

Holly Robinson

#11. It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

Cheryl Lynn

#12. We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

Sheryl Sandberg

#13. Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

Rachel Bloom

#14. My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.

Alexander Chee

#15. Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?

Anthony Trollope

#16. It's not enough for women to speak out on the issue - for the message to be strong and consistent, women's voices must be backed up by men's.

John Conyers

#17. The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.

Andrea Bocelli

#18. Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.

Jenny Hval

#19. Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.

Frances Beinecke

#20. Mister Pierre was finally looking at the baby's body. "A boy? Why aren't you two lackwits seeing to my child?" There had been women's voices in this room all these long hours. Mister Pierre's booming was like sudden thunder during a soft rain.

Nalo Hopkinson

#21. I think reviewers are sexist ... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board.

Marian Keyes

#22. Time has a way of stripping everything that is apparent about a thing away, leaving the Perception of a thing unrecognizable. But in the process, Time bares the true essence and beauty of the thing.

Vivian Marie Feggans

#23. Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

Jean Giraudoux

#24. Together they stood in the doorway. For Sethe it was as though the Clearing had come to her with all its heat and simmering leaves, where the voices of women searched for the right combination, the key, the code, the sound that broke the back of words.

Toni Morrison

#25. Sounds of depression
remembering rejection
Hope turns to despair
black roses everywhere

Keep hearing echoes
voices in my mind
repeating endless lies
evil in disguise

Diana Rasmussen

#26. We are women of the world
The colors of our souls, rich and beautiful
We sing from the same heart, with many voices

Laurel Burch

#27. Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

Ezra Taft Benson

#28. One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.

Susanna Kearsley

#29. For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#30. Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.

A.C. Grayling

#31. As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, I do think that women, like elephants, remember everything and love peanuts.

Julie Klausner

#32. Jillian had chosen their cutest dresses that made grown woman start talking in abnormally high voices. ("Oh, just look at you! Aren't you just so cute!" This wouldn't be so worrisome if it wasn't the same voice that women used with puppies.)

Wen Spencer

#33. And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language.

Emily Croy Barker

#34. Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.

Christine Pelosi

#35. Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

Paul Feig

#36. Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.

Stephen Potter

#37. The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

Muhammad Yunus

#38. We have to fight twice as hard, three times as hard - not only as conservatives, but frankly, as women - to have our voices heard.

Ann Wagner

#39. Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Camille Paglia

#40. The tragedy in the lives of the people is in what does not happen, rather than in what does happen -in all they do not realise.

Ethel Carnie -Miss Nobody

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

#41. When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

Jane Fonda

#42. The man had one of those dark, deep voices, the kind that made men listen and women shed their clothing.

Alexandra Martin

#43. An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

Christopher Columbus

#44. Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

Brene Brown

#45. And Republican women have always been the backbone of our party. We do the work, we are strong believers in conservative values. Having more of those voices in place at a state level is going to be a great improvement for us as a party.

Kerry Healey

#46. 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

#47. I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

Lynn Nottage

#48. As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

Michelle Bachelet

#49. Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.

Sarah Kay

#50. We'd read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind.

Katie McGarry

#51. I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

Boz Scaggs

#52. Murtagh was one of those men who always looked a bit startled to find that women had voices, but he nodded politely enough.

Diana Gabaldon

#53. Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Sarah Waters

#54. Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

David Coverdale

#55. I wait and ache.

Sylvia Plath

#56. Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.

Kim Hyesoon

#57. we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

Alexandre Dumas

#58. Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women

Sivananda

#59. My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

Susan Sarandon

#60. Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#61. Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

Jan Marsh

#62. We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

Camille

#63. Ben understood at last that money was one big dragon, with a billion dollars for a head, and a penny on the tip of its tail. It had as many voices as there were men and women, and it captured all who were fools enough to listen to it all the time.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#64. I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.

Gloria Steinem

#65. The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.

Ann Bancroft

#66. I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.

Liz Phair

#67. We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Barbara Deming

#68. Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

Cameron Russell

#69. I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they're compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.

Katie Aselton

#70. As the prevailing voices in the public spotlight are predominantly men, stepping into the spotlight with the truth of who you are as a woman is political change.

Tabby Biddle

#71. As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

Hillary Clinton

#72. We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

Madeleine Albright

#73. Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

Swanee Hunt

#74. Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

Randi Pink

#75. What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its love?
From " Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", 1962

Sylvia Plath

#76. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel.

Betty Smith

#77. She had one of those husky voices that sounded as if she were permanently coming down with a cold. Men seemed to find that sexy in a woman, which Jackson thought was odd because it made women sound less like women and more like men. Maybe it was a gay thing.

Kate Atkinson

#78. The chaos of their voices registers as a single, overwhelming force cutting off her ability to reason, and all she wants is to get as far away from people as possible.

Zainab Omaki

#79. I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

Lianne La Havas

#80. I think that it was really rock-and-roll stars, women who were breaking boundaries with their bodies and their voices and their beings and their music. I spent a lot of time at concerts,just watching women rock out. They expressed so much of what I believed could be possible.

Eve Ensler

#81. So many women don't have voices in their governments.

Sarah Gavron

#82. Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

Cheryl James

#83. If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the "dirty work" of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.

Emily Matchar

#84. I think women should support each other's work, encourage each other's work, help develop each other's voices and I think, ultimately, when we can stop having the conversation about 'women filmmakers', and just talk about 'filmmakers', then we'll know we've really gotten somewhere.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#85. There's no need to whisper," Elizabeth told her now. "You could sing at the top of your voices and no one would hear you out here on the water." But the women smiled at her suggestion in surprise and unease, as if she had told them that they could fly.

Sara Donati

#86. I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

Esmeralda Santiago

#87. It is the power of a girl with a book that is the best weapon for progress. (...) Because with educated women comes prosperity. And with our voices comes mercy. And with our strength comes change.

Deborah Rodriguez

#88. It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.

Frida Kahlo

#89. It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

Helen Thomas

#90. I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman, everything is either this or that, black or white. But a man can see shades of gray. That's what I call being sensitive.

Carolyn Jones

#91. The women that I picked spoke sweet and low
And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

William Butler Yeats

#92. Two women, one nigra and one white, whose voices were part of me, whose hands had comforted, soothed, and taught. One a pine-knot torch and the other a scented beeswax candle against the darkness of my ignorance and fear. Both gone.

Ann Rinaldi