899 private quotes tagged women

“Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.”— Madeleine Albright

“Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.”— Havelock Ellis

“The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.”— Sargent Shriver

“What I've learned is you treat women right.”— Tyler Perry

“I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.”— Louisa May Alcott

“The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.”— Joseph Ratzinger

“All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.”— Marge Piercy

“I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.”— Jeanette Winterson

“The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.”— Ashley Montagu

“The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.”— Casey Stengel

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”— Bell Hooks

“Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.”— Audre Lorde

“And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.”— Leonard Cohen

“I gravitate toward women.”— Liam Neeson

“A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.”— Ninon de L'Enclos

“Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.”— Billy Crystal

“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.”— Henry James

“The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.”— Jose Marti

“I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.”— James Thurber

“The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.”— Oscar de la Renta

“Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.”— Julia Roberts

“Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.”— Salma Hayek

“In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.”— Kelly Lynch

“Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.”— Margaret Sanger

“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton