899 private quotes tagged women

“Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.” — Isabel Allende

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“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” — Saul Bellow

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“Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.” — Warren Farrell

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“It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.” — Keanu Reeves

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“I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.” — Francois Truffaut

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“You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.” — Rod Stewart

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“I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.” — Rod Stewart

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“Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.” — Jessica Savitch

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“It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.” — Catherine Deneuve

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“Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?” — Dan Savage

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“All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.” — Catherine Deneuve

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“No one knows what women want!” — Ian Somerhalder

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“Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.” — Catherine Deneuve

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“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.” — Marguerite Duras

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“I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.” — Loretta Lynn

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“I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.” — Toni Morrison

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“You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.” — Emma Thompson

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“I think older women still have a full life.” — Betty White

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“When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.” — Jack Nicholson

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“Women are still second-class citizens.” — Joan Jett

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“I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.” — Antonio Banderas

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“Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.” — Maurice Sendak

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“The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just h---y. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.” — George William Curtis

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“Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.” — Francesca Annis

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“It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.” — Annie Lennox

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