Women Quotes

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.'

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.'

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.

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.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

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.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

When you see all the suits in the room, everybody in the room has on suits, you know, the women, too. We're not wearing dresses and chiffon and we're not as fun as we used to be.

It's incredibly hard out there for women of color.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.