899 private quotes tagged women

“It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.”— Ninon de L'Enclos

“I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.”— Ellen DeGeneres

“Women would rather be right than reasonable.”— Ogden Nash

“Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.”— Ellen DeGeneres

“I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.”— Alice Walker

“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.”— Susan B. Anthony

“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.”— W. Somerset Maugham

“In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.”— Alice Walker

“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”— Audre Lorde

“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”— Sojourner Truth

“Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.”— Stendhal

“Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.”— Ayrton Senna

“Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.”— Bill Hicks

“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

“Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.”— Rita Rudner

“I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'”— Kim Kardashian

“You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.”— Scott Adams

“America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.”— George W. Bush

“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

“Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.”— Ovid

“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”— Mary Wollstonecraft

“While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.”— Andrea Dworkin

“I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.”— Vanessa Marcil

“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”— Simone de Beauvoir

“One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.”— Zsa Zsa Gabor