Woman Quotes

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.

I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.