Woman Quotes

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.

I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.