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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
— Rachel True
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
— Abbe Pierre
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
— Jenny Shipley
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
— Will Rogers
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
— Emma Goldman
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
— Marlene Dietrich
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
— Alberto Korda
Men's vows are women's traitors!
— William Shakespeare
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
— Gale Sayers
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
— Albert Ellis
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
— Alphonse Karr
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
— Barbra Streisand
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
— Clare Boothe Luce
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
— E. M. Forster
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
— Farrah Fawcett
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
— Franklin P. Jones
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
— George Santayana
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.
— Germaine Greer
Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.
— Josh Billings
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
— Mae West
I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
— Jennifer Lopez
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
— Charlize Theron
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
— Anne Bronte
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
— Andrew Cuomo
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
— James Howell
Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.
— Deborah Tannen
Women don't realize how powerful they are.
— Judith Light
We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
— Lisa Bonet
On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
— Nancy Keenan
Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.
— Mariah Carey
The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.
— Helen Mirren
On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.
— Bill Flores
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
— Mae West
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
— Clare Boothe Luce
I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
— Joel Rosenberg
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
— Erma Bombeck
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
— Garrison Keillor
There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'
— Jerry Seinfeld
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
— George Santayana
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.
— Tug McGraw
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
— Larry Miller
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
— George Balanchine
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
— Helen Rowland
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
— Louisa May Alcott
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
— Germaine Greer
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
— Germaine Greer
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.
— John Gray
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
— Russell Hoban
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
— Gloria Steinem
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
— H. L. Mencken
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
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
— Candice Bergen
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
— Simone de Beauvoir
The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
— Stanley Baldwin
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
— Kate Millett
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
— Bill Nighy
A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
— Alex Comfort
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 spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
— Ronnie Hawkins
It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.
— Michael Douglas
Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.
— Reynolds Price
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.
— Jim Elliot
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.
— Joseph C. Lincoln
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
— Charlotte Bunch
The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!
— Phil McGraw
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
— Spiro T. Agnew
I'm into women. I've always loved women.
— David Gest
Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
— Phyllis Schlafly
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
— James Patterson
The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
— Florence Kelley
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
— Major Owens
I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.
— GG Allin
I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.
— Shannon Lucid
I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.
— Alan Autry
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
— Kathryn Bigelow
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
— Ernestine Rose
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
— Dennis Rodman
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
— Dennis Rodman
How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
— Moon Unit Zappa
But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
— Robert Falcon Scott
I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.
— Ralph Lauren
When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
— Clara Zetkin
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
— Clara Zetkin
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
— Clara Zetkin
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.
— Sara Paretsky
More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
— Steve Buyer
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
— James Earl Jones
Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.
— Ayrton Senna
By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.
— Jenny Shipley
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
— Audre Lorde
When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
— Victoria Principal
And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.
— Salma Hayek
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
— Gilda Radner
Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
— Zach Wamp
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
— Mary Daly
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
— Nancy Friday
I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.
— Sean Connery
Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
— Andrea Dworkin
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
— Andre Maurois
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
— Maurice Chevalier
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
— Sean Connery
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
— Andrea Dworkin
In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
— Ken Follett
At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.
— Dennis Rodman
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
— Marilyn French
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
— Frances Wright
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Silence is an ornament for women.
— Sophocles
Leave women to find their sphere.
— Lucy Stone
Tradition has made women cowardly.
— Nance O'Neil
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
— Gloria Steinem
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
— Betty Friedan
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
— Henry David Thoreau
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
— Hillary Clinton
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
— H. L. Mencken
I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
— Angelina Jolie
If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.
— Bernie Sanders
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
— Gloria Steinem
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
— Gloria Steinem
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
— Gloria Steinem
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
— Bill Cosby
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
— Ambrose Bierce
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
— Vivienne Westwood
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
— Jane Austen
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
— Lord Byron
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
On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.
— Julie Andrews
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
— George Eliot
During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'
— Goldie Hawn
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
— George Clooney
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
— George W. Bush
When anything goes, it's women who lose.
— Camille Paglia
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
— Camille Paglia
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore de Balzac
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
— Hugh Grant
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
— Sheryl Sandberg
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
— Roseanne Barr
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
— Erma Bombeck
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
— Barbra Streisand
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
— Barbra Streisand
People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
— Joan Jett
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
— Dylan Moran
All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
— Warren Farrell
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
— Samuel Richardson
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
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
— Erica Jong
Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
— Rita Rudner
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
— Nora Ephron
Balls are to men what purses are to women.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
— James Thurber
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
— Gail Sheehy
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
— Marcel Proust
I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.
— Shirley Manson
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
— Bette Davis
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
— Susan Sontag
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
— Hedy Lamarr
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
— Anatole France
The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
— Jose Marti
Lonely women destroy themselves lonely men threaten the world.
— Victor LaValle
Americans like fat books and thin women.
— Russell Baker
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
— Joseph Conrad
Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
— Cher
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
— Cameron Diaz
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
— Jessica Savitch
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
— Brian Tracy
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
— Henny Youngman
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
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.
— Germaine Greer
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
— Germaine Greer
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
— Billy Sunday
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
— Sofia Vergara
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
— Elvis Costello
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
— Courtney Love
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
— Helen Reddy
When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
— Rachel Bilson
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
— Candace Bushnell
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
— Louis Farrakhan
Women have a predestination to suffering.
— Bela Lugosi
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
— Bob Uecker
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
— Lucille Ball
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
— Kofi Annan
The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.
— Marlo Thomas
I think women are excellent social critics.
— Laurie Anderson
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
— Mary Astell
Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
— Anna Held
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
— Wilson Mizner
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
— Elizabeth Bowen
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
— Isaac Mizrahi
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
— Robert Casey
I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am.
— Tim McGraw
My dream is to save women from nature.
— Christian Dior
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
— Kate Millett
We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
— Kate Millett
Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
— Gavin DeGraw
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
— Camryn Manheim
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
— Neil LaBute
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
— Bill Hicks
I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
— Christie Hefner
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
Women are just beginning to see that there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.
— Kenny Loggins
But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
— Anita Hill
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
— Clare Boothe Luce
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
— Holly Near
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.
— Andrew Greeley
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
— L. Neil Smith
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
— Georg Buchner
Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.
— Emma Bonino
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
— Antonia Fraser
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
— Antonia Fraser
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
— Barry Goldwater
I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.
— John Galliano
Women are women, and hurray for that.
— John Galliano
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
— Mark Kennedy
I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.
— Connie Sellecca
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
— Louise Slaughter
Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves.
— Susan Sarandon
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
— Minna Antrim
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
— Louise Brown
Women have this obsession with shoes.
— Alexandra Paul
And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.
— Jenna Elfman
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.
— Michael Hutchence
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
— Thomas Moore
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
— Lawrence Durrell
I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
— Sue Wicks
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
— Benjamin Spock
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
— Andrea Jung
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
— Vito Fossella
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
— Eddie Bernice Johnson
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
— Gilbert Parker
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
— Natalie Goldberg
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
— Adrienne Rich
A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.
— Marion Jones
It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
— Amelia Barr
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
— Francois Truffaut
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
— Aristophanes
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
— Ellen Glasgow
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
— Ellen Glasgow
The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.
— Shirley Knight
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
— Barbara Castle
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 like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
— Brian Clough
Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.
— Lewis Grizzard
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
— Thomas Dekker
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
— George William Curtis
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
— George William Curtis
It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
— Shirley Bassey
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
— Marya Mannes
The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
— Emily Carr
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
— Timothy Garton Ash
It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.
— Siouxsie Sioux
We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.
— Indra Devi
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.
— Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
— Richard Armour
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.
— Judy Chicago
It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.
— Susan Collins
Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.
— Rod Blagojevich
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.
— Markus Wolf
The one thing women love more than money is power.
— D. L. Hughley
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
— Tarja Halonen
And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
— Karen Morley
Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
— Karen McDougal
I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.
— Blu Cantrell
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
— Helena Rubinstein
I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!
— Dorothy Stratten
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
— Daphne du Maurier
Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.
— Margo MacDonald
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
— Barbara Smith
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
— Tillie Olsen
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
— Elizabeth Montagu
I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
— Nana Visitor
Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.
— Henrietta Szold
Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.
— William Reddington Hewlett
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
— George Raft
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
— St. Jerome
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
— Benjamin Franklin
My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
— Magdalena Neuner
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
— Chris Hadfield
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
— Joyce Brothers
She's always there for me when I need her She's my best friend she's just my everything.
— Ashley Olsen
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
— Bill Watterson
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
— Christopher Morley
It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
— Gina Barreca
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
— Steven Spielberg
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.
— Gretchen Rubin
Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.
— Justin Bieber
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
— Lou Holtz
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
— Dale Turner
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
— Marilyn Monroe
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
— Laurence J. Peter
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
— Epictetus
The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
— Justin Timberlake
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
— Conor Oberst
The best education I have ever received was through travel.
— Lisa Ling
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
— Joe Barton
I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.
— Ruben Studdard
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
— Robert Browning
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
— Tupac Shakur
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
— Lee Iacocca
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx
I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.
— Rosamund Pike
Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.
— Joel Osteen
I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.
— Post Malone
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
— Alice Walker
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
— Euripides
I'm doing my best to raise my son and give him a nurturing, loving, and caring environment so he can grow up and be the best version of himself.
— Miranda Kerr
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
— Aristotle
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
— Walt Whitman
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
— Abraham Lincoln
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
— George S. Patton
I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.
— Tim Tebow
I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
— Don Miguel Ruiz
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.
— Roxane Gay
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
— Mark Twain
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
— Ralph Marston
Honesty is the best policy.
— Benjamin Franklin
My sister and I truly are best friends.
— Solange Knowles
My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.
— Carrie Underwood
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.
— Ivana Trump
Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.
— Odell Beckham, Jr.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
— Oscar Wilde
Walking is man's best medicine.
— Hippocrates
I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
— David Cameron
Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.
— Kim Kardashian
Memories are the best things in life, I think.
— Romy Schneider
The best career advice I've gotten is to stay focused, keep moving forward.
— Tyga
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
— John Wooden