Woman Quotes

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!

Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?