Women Quotes

The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.

The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

The women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

I think women love to read love stories.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.

We women have to stick together.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.