Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. Votes: 5
Mary McLeod BethuneDress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. Votes: 4
Coco ChanelThe thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. Votes: 4
Roseanne BarrI am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. Votes: 4
Helen ReddyWomen have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellMen need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about. Votes: 3 Annie Lennox
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them. Votes: 4 Peter Ustinov
My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors." Votes: 3 Rania Attieh
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic. Votes: 3 Janice Dickinson
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. Votes: 3 Wangari Maathai
I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission. Votes: 1 Faye Wattleton
If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college. Votes: 3 Michael Arrington
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Votes: 1 Marilyn Monroe
Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement. Votes: 3 Tina Fey
Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange. Votes: 3 Gilbert Sorrentino
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. Votes: 3 Marlene Dietrich
I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away. Votes: 6 Ann Rule
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. Votes: 4 Elle Macpherson
The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women. Votes: 3 Peter Beard
Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man. Votes: 2 David Walliams
Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall. Votes: 1 Simone Schwarz-Bart
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are? Votes: 1 Joan Crawford
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. Votes: 3 Alice Walker
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable. Votes: 3 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words. Votes: 3 Gloria Steinem
There are so many brilliant women on television right now. Votes: 3 Martha Plimpton
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. Votes: 3 Helen Gurley Brown
The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to which the saints for thousands of years were blind? Or were our biblical views of women gradually eroded by the modern feminist movement that has infiltrated the Church Votes: 3 R. C. Sproul
You're different from all of these other women but do you believe it. Votes: 1 Trey Songz
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate. Votes: 1 Rita Mae Brown
This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now. Votes: 3 Shonda Rhimes
Let's see... I have a thing for pretty legs. But most importantly, I like confident women. Votes: 4 Theo James
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. Votes: 3 Camille Paglia
It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out. Votes: 3 Gloria Steinem
I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today. Votes: 6 Beth Moore
Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. Votes: 4 Henry Steele Commager
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. Votes: 1 Aaron Eckhart
The curvy woman likes to show skin in the right ways - and she should! Votes: 2 Candice Huffine
It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights. Votes: 1 James Denton
There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world. Votes: 1 Kathleen Hanna
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. Votes: 2 Erica Jong
They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge. Votes: 3 Malala Yousafzai
There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women. Votes: 4 Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down. Votes: 4 Bill Gates
Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves. Votes: 2 Chelsea Clinton
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. Votes: 4 Patricia Ireland
Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind. Votes: 4 Johnny Ramistella
I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me. Votes: 3 Christine Lagarde
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Votes: 2 Maureen Dowd
Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. Votes: 2 Andrea Dworkin
It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control. Votes: 2 Camryn Manheim
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. Votes: 2 Christian Dior
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. Votes: 1 George Bernard Shaw
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won. Votes: 2 Pam Grier
There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream. Votes: 4 Jack Kemp
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control. Votes: 2 Jean Paul Gaultier
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. Votes: 2 Christopher Morley
Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term. Votes: 5 Patton Oswalt
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Votes: 2 Henry David Thoreau
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good. Votes: 5 James E. Faust
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics. Votes: 1 Mark Dayton
The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time. Votes: 3 Robin Lim
I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way. Votes: 3 Beyonce Knowles
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women. Votes: 1 Kirsty Gallacher
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Votes: 2 Abigail Adams
I've always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence. Votes: 2 Diane von Furstenberg
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. Votes: 3 Leo Tolstoy
Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality. Votes: 4 Kofi Annan
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention. Votes: 1 Jessica Savitch
I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories. Votes: 3 Lily Koppel
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Votes: 1 Joseph B. Wirthlin
Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more. Votes: 4 Sofia Vergara
People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood. Votes: 2 Zoe Saldana
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit. Votes: 4 Patti Smith
According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon. Votes: 2 Tina Fey
I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me. Votes: 4 Carol Vorderman
I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever. Votes: 3 Stephen Adly Guirgis
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. Votes: 2 Oscar Wilde
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison. Votes: 1 Tim Allen
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Votes: 5 Oscar Wilde
Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment. Votes: 1 Madeleine M. Kunin
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Votes: 1 Marilyn Monroe
...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. Votes: 2 Kofi Annan
When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it. Votes: 2 Dominic Monaghan
We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.' Votes: 2 Elayne Boosler
We heard from a professor at an evangelical college who wore a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women. Now we have a different perspective. Asra Nomani co-wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post titled in part "As Muslim Women, We Actually Ask You Not To Wear The Hijab." Votes: 3 Ari Shapiro
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Votes: 1 Henry David Thoreau
Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles. Votes: 3 Naveen Andrews
Our fashion is for everyone and, throughout the years, we have had the possibility of working with the world's most beautiful and charming women and men. There is no person in particular who we would like to work with that we haven't already worked with. Votes: 1 Domenico Dolce
I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women. Votes: 1 Agyness Deyn
Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be. Votes: 3 Judith Light
The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman. Votes: 3 Robert A. Heinlein
Men are not inspired to protect women who are naked, but instead to conquer and violate them; they want to protect those who are clothed. Votes: 3 Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength. Votes: 3 Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids. Votes: 1 Estelle
I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything. Votes: 4 America Ferrera
For all those who say its a Man world. Respect Women Its their World we are just guest here Votes: 4 Abhishek Shukla
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. Votes: 1 Amber Tamblyn
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. Votes: 3 Alexei Sayle
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. Votes: 1 Friedrich Nietzsche
I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother. Votes: 2 Norman Rockwell
We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view. Votes: 4 Charlotte Bunch
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. Votes: 5 Erica Jong
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. Votes: 1 Natalie Portman
There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality. Votes: 5 Connie Britton
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. Votes: 4 Dido Armstrong
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less Votes: 4 Susan B. Anthony
I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house. Votes: 1 Evangeline Lilly
Bruce, you're an ugly and silly old man. You're very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You're the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You're a mess. You've gone wrong somewhere pal. Votes: 5 Irvine Welsh
Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man. Votes: 5 Dalia Grybauskaite
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. Votes: 4 Andrea Dworkin
I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance. Votes: 3 M. Ward
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine. Votes: 4 Angelina Jolie
Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be. ... I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay. Votes: 4 Carl Everett
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home. Votes: 1 Ingvar Kamprad
A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized. Votes: 7 John Cornyn
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter. Votes: 3 Anne Fortier
The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.] Votes: 4 Juvenal
White women love me 'cause of my edge. And I love white women. Votes: 0 Tracy Morgan
You better change your ways / And get really wild. / I want to tell you something / I wouldn't tell you no lie. / Wild women are the only kind / That really get by, / 'Cause Wild Women don't worry / Wild Women don't get the blues. Votes: 6 Ida Cox
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. Votes: 4 Maya Angelou
In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous. Votes: 2 Donatella Versace
I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented. Votes: 3 Scott Rudin
Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are. Votes: 3 Dee Dee Myers
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. Votes: 3 Carol P. Christ
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. Votes: 4 Lord Byron
Nations are more successful when their women are successful Votes: 2 Barack Obama
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. Votes: 1 Olympia Dukakis
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. Votes: 4 Dolly Parton
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. Votes: 4 Audrey Hepburn
It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!' Votes: 1 Lily James
Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing. Votes: 1 Matthew Perry
We women are way too hard on ourselves. I don't know who some women are dressing for, but we should be celebrating our bodies. Votes: 1 Jessica Collins
Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good at adapting to latest technology. We should link women and technology up-gradation. Votes: 6 Narendra Modi
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding. Votes: 1 Ellen Key
Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business Votes: 0 Rosanna Arquette
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. Votes: 2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. Votes: 4 Margaret Mead
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. Votes: 4 Vivienne Westwood
I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies. Votes: 2 Kelly Reilly
I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives. Votes: 1 James McGreevey
The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be. Votes: 4 Carly Simon
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. Votes: 4 Joanna Russ
Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. Votes: 5 Mo Ibrahim
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business. Votes: 2 Eddie Bernice Johnson
We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success. Votes: 4 Muhtar Kent
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. Votes: 2 Warren Farrell
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. Votes: 5 William Feather
People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says. Votes: 1 Jane Seymour
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. Votes: 1 John Hersey
Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity. Votes: 1 L'Wren Scott
No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven. Votes: 4 George Whitefield
Women of God can never be like women of the world. Votes: 4 Margaret D. Nadauld
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue. Votes: 1 Samuel Richardson
I like what L'Oreal stands for, which is women of worth. Votes: 3 Andie MacDowell
The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do. Votes: 1 Howard Dean
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive. Votes: 4 Kim Gordon
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents. Votes: 1 Clayton Christensen
One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently. Votes: 4 Jane Campion
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling. Votes: 1 A. S. Byatt
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling. Votes: 1 Sanjeev Bhaskar
I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it. Votes: 1 Troy Duffy
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Votes: 1 Marilyn Monroe
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored. Votes: 4 Oscar Wilde
Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family. Votes: 3 Zainab Salbi
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. Votes: 2 Ray Bradbury
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' Votes: 5 Sigmund Freud
Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA. Votes: 3 Bonnie Canino
My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s. Votes: 1 Debra Winger
We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working. Votes: 2 Patricia Schroeder
When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer. Votes: 3 Shirley Geok-lin Lim
It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate. Votes: 3 Shirley Manson
It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps. Votes: 2 Carrie Underwood
Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal. Votes: 4 Vivienne Westwood
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. Votes: 4 Gloria Steinem
Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day. Votes: 4 Waris Dirie
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. Votes: 4 Antonia Fraser
I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence. Votes: 1 Pierce Brosnan
The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are different from a women's emotions and only marriage can bring the two worlds and the two different sets of emotions together properly. Votes: 3 Sylvia Plath
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Votes: 3 Virginia Woolf
I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country. Votes: 1 Evelyn Lauder
If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback. Votes: 4 Portia Doubleday
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. Votes: 4 Florence Ellinwood Allen
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable. Votes: 4 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women. Votes: 1 Britt Ekland
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth. Votes: 4 Naomi Wolf
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged. Votes: 4 Felicity Huffman
I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around. Votes: 1 Jennie Garth
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. Votes: 4 Warren Farrell
In literature, older women are not often given center stage. Votes: 1 Kate Christensen
What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men. Votes: 1 Vanessa Marcil
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. Votes: 4 Gloria Steinem
Women have a better sense of color and a better color memory. They're more likely to notice when something doesn't match; more likely to notice what you're wearing. Votes: 1 Helen Fisher
One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that. Votes: 3 George Carey
Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent. Votes: 1 Noel Gallagher
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that. Votes: 3 Billy Sunday
The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation. Votes: 4 Natasha Leggero
Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent. Votes: 1 Tyra Banks
Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well. Votes: 4 Nicolas Roeg
I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost. Votes: 1 Omar Sharif
I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive. Votes: 2 Angelina Jolie
In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get. Votes: 1 Lynsey Addario
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. Votes: 3 Susan Faludi
At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights. Votes: 3 Stephanie Schriock
I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women. Votes: 2 Katori Hall
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world! Votes: 3 Eddie Vedder
Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose. Votes: 1 Barbara Boxer
Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality. Votes: 1 Sam Taylor-Johnson
Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. Votes: 1 Patricia Richardson
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible. Votes: 1 Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women. Votes: 1 Sofia Vergara
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. Votes: 1 Vivienne Westwood
What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles. Votes: 8 Melissa Rosenberg
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. Votes: 1 Paulo Coelho
Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it's also important to tell stories about women's triumphs, women being slackers, women being criminals, women being heroes. Votes: 4 Diablo Cody
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted. Votes: 4 Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks. Votes: 3 Bobby Riggs
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. Votes: 2 Anita Brookner
For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended. Votes: 3 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique. Votes: 2 Arnold Schwarzenegger
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance. Votes: 4 Andrew Cohen
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Votes: 1 Friedrich Nietzsche
Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever. Votes: 1 Joyce Brothers
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. Votes: 1 Cornelia Otis Skinner
The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices. Votes: 4 Andrea Bocelli
In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible. Votes: 3 Jorge Cruise
Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. Votes: 3 Michelle Bachelet
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style. Votes: 4 Gloria Steinem