Woman Quotes

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!

OMG, I am a married woman!

There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld.

A woman is subject matter enough.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.

I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.