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Women Quotes

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

– Simone de Beauvoir

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

– Sri Mulyani Indrawati

What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it’s day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it’s, ‘Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?’

– Tyra Banks

If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.

– Sri Mulyani Indrawati

You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man – I don’t care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is – they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

– Vanessa Ferlito

For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.

– Steve Buyer

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

– William Cobbett

A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like.

– Stacey D’Erasmo

I believe it is in the world’s interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.

– Weili Dai

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

– Vivienne Westwood

Yes, black is slimming, but it’s not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

– Twiggy

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women’s liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

– Tom Glazer

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China’s amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

– Zhang Xin

Every health threat has a different nature and characteristic and appropriate response. Zika is a particular risk to pregnant women who reside in or thinking of traveling to places where Zika is spreading.

– Tom Frieden

I’m pleased to have the support of working men and women throughout the state of Wisconsin. And I found in the primary I did. Now the key is to get that turnout activated. And we know we can do that. Again, the temperature here is very, very high on both sides of the aisle.

– Tom Barrett

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.

– Sarah Jessica Parker

I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I’ve never played the Bionic Woman. In ‘Sarah Connor’ and ‘Lost,’ I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I’ve played quite peripheral people.

– Sonya Walger

I realized that women’s liberation is men’s liberation, too.

– Warren Farrell

Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women bill into a political football. The Republicans are offering an improved version of the reauthorization bill and I want to review it.

– Sarah Steelman

I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.

– Vinnie Jones

It’s intimidating for guys to hear women complain about their boyfriends. Guys imagine that girls are thrilled to have them around, and this is what they really talk about.

– Whit Stillman

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women’s rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

– Shana Alexander

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

– Tony Hillerman

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women’s sports have arrived.

– Sheryl Swoopes

I think there’s a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I’ve even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

– Shalom Harlow

Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

– Thomas Moore

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world’s bulwark of liberty.

– Steve Buyer

The When Women Succeed, America Succeeds economic agenda will enable women to achieve greater economic security, raise wages for women and their families, and better allow working parents to support and care for their families.

– Sander Levin

Women do come up to me after a show, but it’s usually to say, ‘Yhank you for making us laugh,’ and all that.

– Vir Das

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

– Sebastian Horsley

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