Women’s Quotes

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Jerry Rubin

People appreciate a confident man. They love a strong man, and when it comes to a woman, I don’t know if people just expect women not to speak up for themselves or be weak or just always be the follow-behind, but I’m proud that I’m in a generation of leaders. I’m proud that I’m surrounded by very strong women.

LeToya Luckett

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

John Norman

The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I’m driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.

Phoebe Philo

Guitars are like women. You’ll never get them totally right.

Slash

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

Ninon de L’Enclos

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Jordan Peterson

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women’s economic freedom.

Gloria Steinem

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

Tracy McMillan

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

Indra Nooyi

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

Coretta Scott King

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

George Raft

There are two kinds of individuals on Planet Earth who do not have beards – women and youth.

Phil Robertson

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

William Allen White

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Rudolph Valentino

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you’ve got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

Emilia Clarke

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

Vera Farmiga

Without women to nurture in this world, how do – how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

Raquel Welch

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

Naomi Wolf

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Paulo Coelho

A lot of women don’t know how to love because there’s deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

Lil Wayne

To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.

Mac Miller

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Kevin Hart

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline – flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I’d rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

Magnus Scheving

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, ‘Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?’ And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

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

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, ‘This is just dumb.’

Louis C. K.

I know lots of women who have slim legs but refuse to wear skirts because of unsightly varicose or spider veins. Though heredity plays a role, your genes don’t have to doom you to a life of long pants.

Denise Austin

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Maya Angelou

Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational speeches and by providing independent income for women who otherwise would have to be maids and sharecroppers.

A’Lelia Bundles

I certainly don’t think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.

Grace Kelly

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

Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

Isla Fisher

Right before the Bush inauguration, many women were greatly reassured when Laura said of Roe v. Wade on the ‘Today’ show, ‘No, I don’t think it should be overturned.’ Three days later, her husband reimposed the ‘global gag rule’ on groups abroad that receive U.S. funding for family planning.

Molly Ivins

We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.

Jeanne Shaheen

I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.

John C. Mather

Nobody… took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

Gertrude B. Elion

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

The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women’s rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it’s the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.

Elliot Page

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

John Conyers

Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

John C. McGinley

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

Vir Das

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.

Vivienne Westwood

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

Alice Paul

You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I’ve seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.

Jon Taffer

Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease. There will always be those who will resort to force against innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of political goals.

Richard N. Haass

Educating girls and women and equipping them with ICT skills offers a clear return on investment for society: stronger families, stronger communities, stronger economies.

Tae Yoo

Women are problem solvers, and often we don’t get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who’s loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That’s not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.

Mazie Hirono

I’ve been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

Rod Stewart

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there’s nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs then make it the financial obligation of the husband to provide the support. It is his obligation and his sole obligation. And this is exactly and precisely what we will lose if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed.

Phyllis Schlafly

Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close to those families through the grief and reality of losing a child to abortion.

Abby Johnson

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women take so long to get ready, but when they get out of the bathroom, they look smokin’ hot. That’s the struggle of men throughout history, waiting by the door. The wait is so worth it. Always.

Andy Grammer

Powerful women often get concerned with this idea that they’re going to be seen in this unforgiving light. Screw that. It’s so old-fashioned… It’s so uninspired and actually really cowardly.

Scarlett Johansson

The term ‘alpha female’ originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.

Frans de Waal

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Germaine Greer

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Robin Williams

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

Chris Rock

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Christian Dior

When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I’ve always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

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

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

Shirley Knight

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

Rush Limbaugh

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I’m talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I’m hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

Steve Harvey

I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.

Francois Nars

Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. She has those wicked eyes – it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

Joshua Jackson

When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.

John Shelby Spong

I am not the first woman to multi-task. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby – there are many women who have done this before.

Jacinda Ardern

We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.

Stacey Abrams

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

There is a fundamental difference between men and women – women need romance, men need intrigue.

Sherry Argov

I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother’s side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father’s side had served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service.

Nick Earls

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation’s birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq’s battlefields.

Joe Barton