Top 100 Working Women Quotes
#1. But working women with retired husbands tend to be more dissatisfied with their marriages than any other type of wife.39
Stephanie Coontz
#2. [Kim Kardashian] is one of the hardest-working women I've been around ever.
Kris Humphries
#3. At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.
Katharine Graham
#4. The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place
Bob Dole
#5. I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
Gal Gadot
#6. It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
Rachel Zoe
#7. It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.
Alexandra Kollontai
#8. I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
Lindsay Davenport
#9. I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States,
Elizabeth Catlett
#10. No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
Horace Greeley
#11. Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.
Tyra Banks
#12. As New York careens toward the modernity of the twentieth century when Gibson girls were transforming themselves into working women, Clara Driscoll enters the male field of stained glass artistry and builds a lively, multi-national, multi-class women's department within Tiffany Studios.
Susan Vreeland
#13. When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.
Anna Howard Shaw
#14. There are three different takes on career women in this house, she thought to herself: that of my husband, who respects working women but wishes I wasn't one of them; that of my mother, who hates the very idea; and then there's me, a working woman who has no idea what she really wants! There
Ayse Kulin
#15. I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.
Meryl Streep
#16. As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.
Gloria Steinem
#17. I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.
Jane Pauley
#18. See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#19. So like it or not, the question for us, as it has always been for working women, is how will we navigate the emotional mine field of love and power, career and family?
Lia Macko
#20. I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career.
Mindy Kaling
#21. I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.
Barbara Neely
#22. As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#23. Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
Bella Abzug
#24. In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.
Diane Garnick
#25. It lifts my spirits to see the statues of mothers, working women, and female peasants. These respectful and well-maintained tributes to women make the day special for me; this art is a lasting reminder that women matter in these rural Spanish towns and that women's contributions are remembered.
Jane V. Blanchard
#26. I want to design for the working women. Okay well - it sounds like 90% of us are that. But really, we are more. We are working women who like to cook, to travel; we are a girlfriend, a writer. We are so much more than just being defined by the one job we have.
Sarah Lafleur
#27. The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Helen Fisher
#28. 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
#29. Having all those women together in one place was like looking through a photo album of my life: from when I was a baby to the Saturday Club to Rockport Lodge to working at the newspaper to meeting Aaron.
Anita Diamant
#30. 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
#31. I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.
Kate Hudson
#32. If you don't have women working for you, you really don't know what the people who are buying from you really want.
Renee James
#33. If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.
Helen Wills
#34. It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.
Allan Gurganus
#35. I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.
Ted Cruz
#37. Madeleine Albright says, "There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." I wonder what happens to women who bully other women.
Crystal Woods
#38. We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.
Susan Molinari
#39. Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
Florence Kelley
#40. The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.
Alice Paul
#41. To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be "reached out to" in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.
Irena Klepfisz
#42. More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
Valentina Tereshkova
#43. The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
Betty Dodson
#44. I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.
Emma Donoghue
#45. It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy.
Jordana Spiro
#46. I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.
Amy Schumer
#47. There's no evidence that women are actually happier at home. In fact numerous studies show that working moms are happier and more fulfilled than stay-at-home moms.
Emily Matchar
#48. What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.
Judith Martin
#49. There is a lot of gender segregation. You still have many poor women who work in women-only jobs. In the family, in most cases, only women have the double job of working outside the home and taking care of the family.
Alix Kates Shulman
#50. I totally support women working on their relationships, their careers, or whatever they need to do to be healthy moms, but it's also important to realize you may not have as much time as you think.
Constance Marie
#51. There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.
Lucy Walker
#52. I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#53. It is important to value the individual, to have good health, a loving family and good relationships, to have community ties, leisure pursuits. These are all part of our lives. It is important to keep all of our parts in working order.
Helen Lynch
#54. The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.
Ellen Key
#55. I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.
Susan Polgar
#56. I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.
Sandra Lee
#58. The early years of statistical development were dominated by men. Many women were working in the field, but they were almost all employed in doing the detailed calculations needed for statistical analysis, and were indeed called "computers".
David Salsburg
#59. Without Holy Spirit boldness, the world will remain unevangelized ... there can never be a substitute for the power of the Spirit working through willing men and women, and that power will bring boldness.
George Verwer
#60. Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
Carlos Fuentes
#61. If mainstream culture thinks gender roles are unimportant, church culture makes them too important.
Katelyn Beaty
#62. In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.
Christian Schwochow
#63. Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
Vanessa Paradis
#64. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead
#65. Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.
Salma Hayek
#66. I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.
Michael Lehmann
#67. We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.
Joan Coxsedge
#68. I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.
Eric Roberts
#69. Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#70. I really hope that I can be helpful in that journey because I do believe that women deserve the same pay. We work just as hard as men do. I've been working, playing tennis, since I was three years old. And to be paid less just because of my sex - it doesn't seem fair.
Serena Williams
#71. I thought that one of the things women like to do is eat. So I started working on a game concept based on eating.
Toru Iwatani
#72. Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.
Tom Wolfe
#73. I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
Olivia Thirlby
#74. We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
Patricia Schroeder
#75. Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.
Morena Baccarin
#76. Antifeminists are the only ones who benefit from their version of working on women's behalf; in reality, they put other women at risk and fail to solve any larger problems.
Jessica Valenti
#77. Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.
Angela Merkel
#78. Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
Al Pacino
#79. For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.
Carl Hagelin
#80. Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
Zainab Salbi
#81. I have always championed the concept of administrators of color. My mother worked in advertising, and growing up, I saw my mother's community of women working behind the scenes. I had the opportunity from a young age to know that I could do this work.
Lisa Lucas
#82. I have had the opportunity to meet men and women working in the sex trade in my travels to Mexico's northern and southern borders.
Maya Goded
#83. Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
Betty Friedan
#84. One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
Nancy Roman
#85. America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.
Charles B. Rangel
#86. Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
Marge Piercy
#87. I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.
Jack Nicholson
#88. We must begin to create a revolutionary, multiracial women's movement that seriously addresses the main issues affecting poor and working-class women.
Angela Y. Davis
#89. You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
Isaac Mizrahi
#90. She tried to show them how women could do anything, and do it competently. How problems could be worked out if they ignored what people said and did what conscience required.
Kiana Davenport
#91. Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
Adrienne Rich
#92. We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money.
Candace Bushnell
#93. I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. And, you know, I've had a great relationship with women.
Donald Trump
#94. I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.
Margaret Hamburg
#95. For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents - with women representing half of the shadow cabinet - and working together at every level of the party.
Jeremy Corbyn
#96. I saw a lot of working class men and women - myself included - living a deeper, more thoughtful life than would have been possible without the church... The sense of belonging to something big, something important, lent unity and meaning.
Jeanette Winterson
#97. Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?
Diane Samuels
#98. I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
Frances Farenthold
#99. Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#100. I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have avoided working on women's issues. I don't do it as a career or profession; it's my very essence as a human being.
Vandana Shiva
