Quotes about Women

"Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise."

"In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change."

"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S."

"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."

"Safety and security of women and children will determine the well-being and strength of our nations."

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

"Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career."

"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor."

"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."

"Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman."

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

"Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour."

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."

"I always play women I would date."

"The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion."

"Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age."

"A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan."

"I think women are excellent social critics."

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

"I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness."

"Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens."

"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious."

"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time."

"People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do."

"Women want love to be a novel, men a short story."

"Men and women, women and men. It will never work."

"God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth."

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."

"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."

"Years ago women of my size were considered royalty."