Women Quotes

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

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.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.