Women - Quotes & Sayings

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

Viola Davis

The path to diversity begins with supporting, mentoring, and sponsoring diverse women and men to become leaders and entrepreneurs.

Denise Morrison

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

Stephanie Mills

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.

Marc Jacobs

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Gloria Steinem

Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.

Sheri L. Dew

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Hillary Clinton

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

H. L. Mencken

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Marilyn Monroe

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

William Moulton Marston

In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim.

Lydia Millet

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Lucy Stone

Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.

Cory Booker

Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Rita Mae Brown

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

P. J. O'Rourke

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Delhi women - they're the most beautiful women! But the fact remains that they know they are gorgeous.

Vir Das

As we've seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities - and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

Michelle Obama

Donald Trump is not a 71-year-old white man. He is an Indian uncle. He wears suits that don't fit; he can't speak English properly. He works with his idiotic sons; he hates women but loves his daughter. He makes up words when he gets angry. He is an Indian uncle.

Hasan Minhaj

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

Janelle Monae

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Charles V

I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life. The most beautiful women - Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Hutton, Ali MacGraw - all embraced the aging process.

Aerin Lauder

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Chapman Catt

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

Faye Wattleton

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

Warren Spector

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

Katherine Johnson

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Coco Chanel

I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

Giorgio Armani

I'll take the stairs instead of the elevator, or when I'm on a phone call, I'll do squats or pace the room when I'm talking. We're modern women! We have to figure out how to make it work, right?

Ivanka Trump

If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.

Deborah Tannen

I have a dream that, one day, maybe we'll have more women in the Senate than there are victims of Harvey Weinstein's harassment.

Amy Klobuchar

There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu

Whether it's salary or a promotion or a job, I think it's important for women to ask for what they think they deserve.

Susan Wojcicki

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

Max Hastings

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

Sojourner Truth

We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.

Russell M. Nelson

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman

I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.

Penelope Cruz

I don't think I was a catalyst for the women's movement.

Aretha Franklin

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

Shirin Ebadi

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

Alexander McQueen

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Louisa May Alcott

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Marlene Dietrich

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

Richard Rohr