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 ~
I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.
~By Theodor Reik ~
The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
~By Casey Stengel ~
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
~By Robin Morgan ~
I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
~By Ed O'Neill ~
I've always liked men better than women.
~By Bette Davis ~
President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.
~By Rosa DeLauro ~
I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies.
~By Norma McCorvey ~
I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.
~By Sandra Oh ~
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
~By Alberto Korda ~
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
~By Andre Maurois ~
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
~By Karel Capek ~
One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.
~By Stephen Lewis ~
I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.
~By Tom Leykis ~
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
~By Faye Wattleton ~
And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.
~By Salma Hayek ~
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.
~By Courtney Love ~
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
~By Sarah Orne Jewett ~
Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
~By Karen McDougal ~
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.
~By Sela Ward ~
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
~By Lactantius ~
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
~By Alex Comfort ~
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
~By Naomi Watts ~
There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.
~By Mary Timony ~
It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
~By Lara St. John ~
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.
~By Helen Reddy ~
The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before.
~By Elizabeth Debold ~
To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
~By Bill Frist ~
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
I believe that all men and women will be saved.
~By Pat Buckley ~
There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
~By Ronnie Hawkins ~
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
~By Stephen Lewis ~
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.
~By Dave Reichert ~
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
~By Keith Miller ~
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
~By Billie Jean King ~
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
~By Jerry Costello ~
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
~By Don Marquis ~
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
~By Veronica Franco ~
We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.
~By Marc Forne Molne ~
If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.
~By Cynthia Nelms ~
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
~By Coretta Scott King ~
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
~By Julie Burchill ~
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
Balls are to men what purses are to women.
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
~By Salma Hayek ~
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
~By Emma Goldman ~
People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.'
~By Sung Hi Lee ~
Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
~By Cher ~
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
~By Charles V ~
I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
~By George Carey ~
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).
~By Jennifer Wyatt ~
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
~By Juvenal ~
I avoid crazy women.
~By Jeremy London ~
Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
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 ~
Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.
~By Jennifer Saunders ~
I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.
~By Ralph Lauren ~
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier?
~By Linda Fiorentino ~
When I was a young man, I had a mentor on women and he said when you meet a woman that you think you like, don't ask her for a drink. Take her out for a bowl of soup. Because a woman who can enjoy a bowl of soup is bound to be more interesting.
~By Art Cooper ~
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