899 private quotes tagged women

“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.” — Megan Fox

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“Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.” — Bill Vaughan

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“It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.” — Sienna Miller

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“When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.” — Billie Jean King

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“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.” — Richard Pryor

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“Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.” — Bill Copeland

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“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.” — Marlene Dietrich

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“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” — Isabel Allende

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“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.” — Kathryn Bigelow

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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.” — Vera Farmiga

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“On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.” — Jesse Jackson

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“We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.” — Emma Thompson

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“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.” — Natalie Portman

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“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.” — Orson Welles

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“I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.” — Orlando Bloom

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“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.” — Germaine Greer

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“Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.” — Veronica Franco

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“Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.” — Rudolph Valentino

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“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” — Jean Piaget

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“As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'” — Alice Walker

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