In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
~By Catharine MacKinnon ~
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.
~By Chris Cannon ~
I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'
~By Marie Osmond ~
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.
~By Melinda Clarke ~
And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
~By Ninon de Lenclos ~
Women are women, and hurray for that.
~By John Galliano ~
It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.
~By Carre Otis ~
Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
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.
~By Tracy Austin ~
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.
~By Jerry Costello ~
We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body.
~By Marsha Blackburn ~
I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
~By Keith Henson ~
My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?
~By Eric Braeden ~
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
~By Learned Hand ~
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
~By Joe Baca ~
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
~By Jean Kerr ~
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
~By Agnes Macphail ~
The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.
~By Jim Sensenbrenner ~
I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
~By Anita Hill ~
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.
~By Keith Hernandez ~
I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.
~By Linda Evans ~
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
~By Anita Borg ~
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
~By Ogden Nash ~
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
~By Belva Lockwood ~
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
~By Jean Piaget ~
The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.
~By Peter Buffett ~
Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
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.
~By Anna Freud ~
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
~By George Byron ~
The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.
~By Brad Garrett ~
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
~By Eleanor Holmes Norton ~
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
~By Helena Rubinstein ~
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
~By Rosalyn S. Yalow ~
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
~By Jean Rhys ~
For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
~By Etta James ~
Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
~By Rachel True ~
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
~By George Raft ~
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
~By Adrienne Barbeau ~
Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.
~By Pierre Cardin ~
I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.
~By Joan Allen ~
I can hear the roar of women's silence.
~By Thomas Sankara ~
The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
~By Antoinette Brown Blackwell ~
Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
~By Dinah Shore ~
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
~By Jack Kingston ~
Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.
~By Lucy Larcom ~
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
~By Cher ~
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
~By Tyra Banks ~
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
~By Helen Rowland ~
The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
~By Joe Barton ~
It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
~By Bill Condon ~
As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
~By Kate Smith ~
The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.
~By Asa Hutchinson ~
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
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.
~By Conrad Burns ~
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.
~By Annette Bening ~
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
~By Kate Millett ~
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
~By Ken Livingstone ~
Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
~By Pepper Schwartz ~
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
~By Henry Ellis ~
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
~By Ayaan Hirsi Ali ~
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