899 private quotes tagged women

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

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“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

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

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“I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.” — Madeleine Albright

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“The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.” — Bill Blass

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“There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.” — Samuel Richardson

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“In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.” — Audre Lorde

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“I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.” — Madeleine Albright

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“Most women are not as young as they are painted.” — Max Beerbohm

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“Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.” — John Calvin

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“You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.” — Dave Attell

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“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!” — Susan B. Anthony

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“I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.” — Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.” — Gloria Steinem

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“When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.” — Audre Lorde

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“I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.” — Shania Twain

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“All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.” — Megan Fox

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“I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.” — Madeleine Albright

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“In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.” — Shania Twain

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“With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.” — Betsey Johnson

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“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.” — Gloria Steinem

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“Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.” — Mehmet Oz

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“Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.” — Robert Farrar Capon

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