Top 1200 All Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

I think with the Mae Young Classic, bringing in 30 women from all over the world shows what an impact women have in the company.

I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.

I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.

People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine MacKinnon, it’s liberalism applied to women. Feminism will have won not when a few women get an equal piece of the oppression pie, served up in our sisters’ sweat, but when all dominating hierarchies - including economic ones - are dismantled.

We shouldn't expect women to have it all and manage it all and I certainly don't want to be portrayed in that way - I think it's a very negative message to send women.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want

To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.

My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.

I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy.

Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight for what they deserve. I'm proud to be a part of a wave of strong women on TV!

Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame.

The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that.

I don't think that there's a target audience at all. These stories were in circulation. The stories were told by men, told in the marketplace by men, but also behind doors by women, but there's no real record of this. It's likely they were told by women to children in their interior rooms. The story could be a negative story, they could be presented as a, "Watch out! Women will get round you, do things to you, weave you in their toils." It could be buried in it an old cautionary story about women and their wiles.

It's not that I only want to make films about women, but from my experience, I have been very interested in the women who play these characters.

men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

Women in business, women in employment anywhere face a very different set of challenges than their male counterparts.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.

I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.

The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if they're painters, you don't necessarily see them, or if they're actors, you see the role they're playing. In political life, you see women of enormous courage and smarts and humor, and that releases the talent, especially in little girls who are watching.

I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

In 'The White Princess,' the women are leading the story, and they're holding everything together. It's definitely a world of women's empowerment.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.

Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.

I've been lucky enough to play lots of real women - flawed, strong, independent women - and I love it.

I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.