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Famous Quotes
- Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
- Camille Paglia on Women
- My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
- Antonia Fraser on Women
- My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
- William Allen White on Women
- My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter on Women
- My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
- My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.
- Hugh Jackman on Women
- My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
- Camille Paglia on Women
- My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
- Alice Walker on Women
- Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Samuel Johnson on Women
- Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
- George William Curtis on Women
- Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
- Alexander Pope on Women
- No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.
- W. C. Fields on Women
- No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
- Edvard Munch on Women
- No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
- Gloria Steinem on Women
- No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah on Women
- No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
- Simone De Beauvoir on Women
- No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.
- Julie Burchill on Women
- No one knows what women want!
- Ian Somerhalder on Women
- No one wants to see curvy women.
- Karl Lagerfeld on Women
- No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
- Bell Hooks on Women
- No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah on Women
- No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
- Salma Hayek on Women
- No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
- James Larkin on Women
- Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
- Bill Copeland on Women
- Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
- Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
- Bill Vaughan on Women
- Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.
- Rick Perry on Women
- Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
- Kristin Scott Thomas on Women
- Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
- Susan B. Anthony on Women
- Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.
- Robert Farrar Capon on Women
- On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.
- James Russell Lowell on Women
- On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
- Jesse Jackson on Women
- On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.
- Julie Andrews on Women
- Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
- Gina Barreca on Women
- Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
- Erma Bombeck on Women
- One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
- Jerry Saltz on Women
- One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Women
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
- Gustave Flaubert on Women
- One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor on Women
- Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
- Anatole France on Women
- Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.
- Jon Meacham on Women
- Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin on Women
- Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
- Carol P. Christ on Women
- Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
- Anna Freud on Women
- Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
- George Raft on Women
- People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
- Alexei Sayle on Women
- People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
- Louisa May Alcott on Women
- People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
- People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
- Janice Dickinson on Women
- People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
- Mick Jagger on Women
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