Woman Quotes

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.