Women Quotes

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Women like being kissed.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

Women are not all single-issue voters.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Strong women only marry weak men.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

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.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.