Woman Quotes

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

I think every woman, maybe every man, looks in the mirror and says, 'Oh my God, there's a wrinkle.' So we're all in the same boat.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.