899 private quotes tagged women

“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.” — Miguel de Cervantes

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“I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.” — Billy Joel

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“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

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“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.” — Erica Jong

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“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.” — Gene Tierney

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“I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.” — Jack Nicholson

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“In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.” — Louisa May Alcott

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“At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.” — Shirley Chisholm

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“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.” — Clare Boothe Luce

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“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” — Roseanne Barr

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“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” — Virginia Woolf

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“The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.” — Wilson Mizner

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“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

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“If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.” — Camryn Manheim

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“'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.” — Havelock Ellis

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“I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.” — Carol P. Christ

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“I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.” — Jasmine Guy

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“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

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“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?” — Virginia Woolf

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“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.” — Angela Davis

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“I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.” — Cicely Tyson

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“As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.” — Molly Ivins

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