Women - Quotes & Sayings

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Gail Sheehy

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Elizabeth Bowen

Obviously, different people identify me as the face of women's hockey and whatnot, but like my teammates, I'm just there to perform and compete.

Hilary Knight

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Franklin P. Jones

I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

Pamela Anderson

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

Juvenal

The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

Viola Davis

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

Courtney Love

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Cameron Diaz

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

Ziggy Marley

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Mary Astell

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Thomas Dekker

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Hugh Grant

When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we've broken up and we're no longer speaking, that love never goes away. No one told me that.

Junot Diaz

Nondiscrimination has been the law of the land for over three decades, yet, in some workplaces, the standard for treatment of pregnant women has remained in the dark ages. Some are fired or demoted, with no hesitation, when a modest accommodation would allow them to continue to work and support their families.

Valerie Jarrett

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Anna Held

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Bela Lugosi

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Richard Armour

I think women are excellent social critics.

Laurie Anderson

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Elvis Costello

I always tell the story of 'Irreplaceable.' I initially wrote 'Irreplaceable' with myself in mind, with plans of it being my record. I love that record; however, what I realised about that record was that though given the circumstances of that situation - men and women are not that different - when you sing about it, it changes things, you know?

Ne-Yo

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Francois Truffaut

My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together. However, I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity.

Phil Robertson

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

Bob Geldof

The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

Bill Cunningham

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

Sidney Sheldon

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Benjamin Spock

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Alexandra Paul

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.

Patty Duke

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

George William Curtis

My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.

Evelyn Lauder

Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

Natalie Goldberg

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Hanna Rosin

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.

Isaac Mizrahi

The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

Caitlin Moran

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Helen Reddy

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

Phoebe Philo

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Duras

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Jean Giraudoux

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Christine Baranski

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

John Mason Brown

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Jill Clayburgh

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

Christie Hefner

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.

Julia Stiles

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Jessica Savitch

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Jane Campion

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Candace Bushnell

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

Britt Ekland