It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. ~By Helen Thomas ~
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. ~By Leland Stanford ~
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. ~By Bela Lugosi ~
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. ~By Amelia Earhart ~
I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists. ~By Estelle Parsons ~
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. ~By Edward W. Howe ~
Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself. ~By Roseanne Barr ~
It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation. ~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. ~By Alan Ayckbourn ~
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success. ~By Wilhelm Keitel ~
The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission. ~By Mark Kirk ~
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. ~By Walt Whitman ~
Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served. ~By Clayton Christensen ~
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. ~By Marguerite Yourcenar ~
We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get. ~By Andy Wachowski ~
The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before. ~By Peter Dawson ~
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable. ~By Liz Phair ~
The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction. ~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way. ~By Laura Bush ~
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen. ~By James Stephens ~
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. ~By Lynda Barry ~
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. ~By Bill Cosby ~
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ~By Mitch Daniels ~
But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking. ~By Wanda Sykes ~
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also. ~By Barbara Deming ~
Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal. ~By Grace Kelly ~
The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably. ~By Susan Davis ~
What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country. ~By Bill Maher ~
I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that. ~By Laura Dern ~
I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire. ~By Lynn Westmoreland ~
Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty. ~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families. ~By Jeff Sessions ~
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 ~
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history. ~By Kate Millett ~
I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women. ~By Amber Tamblyn ~
Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to. ~By Eleanor Clift ~
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. ~By Paul Getty ~
I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families. ~By John Shimkus ~
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. ~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me. ~By Portia de Rossi ~
I am like many of the women I have played onscreen. ~By Maureen O'Hara ~
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 ~
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. ~By Ken Follett ~
You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not. ~By Adam Sandler ~
Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one. ~By Michael Rosenbaum ~
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ~By Betty Friedan ~
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life. ~By Joseph C. Lincoln ~
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. ~By Michael Burgess ~
Men's vows are women's traitors! ~By William Shakespeare ~
Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences. ~By Star Jones ~
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. ~By Plato ~
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule? ~By Patricia Clarkson ~
No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone. ~By Salma Hayek ~
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 ~
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. ~By Barbara Mikulski ~
I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more. ~By Courtney Love ~
So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first. ~By Gavin DeGraw ~
I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment. ~By David Gest ~
You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine. ~By Jeanne Tripplehorn ~
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. ~By Samuel Richardson ~
If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families. ~By Adriana Lima ~
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. ~By Amy Clampitt ~
Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised. ~By Daniel Pinkwater ~
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~By Bill Maher ~
In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy. ~By Sally Kirkland ~
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. ~By Salma Hayek ~
But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind. ~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more. ~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. ~By Nadine Gordimer ~
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. ~By Taslima Nasrin ~
I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times. ~By Kate Clinton ~
All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious. ~By Daniel Mainwaring ~
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. ~By Camille Paglia ~
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~By Ogden Nash ~
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. ~By Diane Wakoski ~
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots. ~By Wendy Cope ~
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. ~By Lindsey Graham ~
A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well. ~By Meg Ryan ~
Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business. ~By Rosanna Arquette ~
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth. ~By Barbara Cartland ~
A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together. ~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
Every time I find a picture of him with other women, or read in magazines that he's involved with 'groupies,' I don't go and show up where he is making a huge scene and getting our faces put all over the TV and papers. ~By Kim Mathers ~
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 ~
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. ~By Ida B. Wells ~
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. ~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders. ~By Florence E. Allen ~
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? ~By Victoria Woodhull ~
There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us. ~By Kristen Bell ~
Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy. ~By Stephanie Mills ~
In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down. ~By Annette Funicello ~
I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there. ~By Martha Plimpton ~
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. ~By Jenny Shipley ~
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ~By Gail Sheehy ~
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies. ~By James Stephens ~
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 ~
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them. ~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women. ~By Catherine Deneuve ~
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