Top 1200 Great Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

Feminism should be about liberating women, all women, even Republican women, to be their true selves.

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Sexism is bad enough when it's men demeaning women. When women do it to other women, it's even more deflating.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.

[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .

We need to do a better job of mentorships and role models to bring other young women along so that there's more women in our boardrooms, there's more women here in the United States Senate and in Congress. I think there's an important role for women to play.

I feel like everyone has a preference. You have women who don't like shorter guys. You have women who like taller guys. You have women who like heavier men. You have women who like smaller men. It's the same thing with men. You have men who prefer lighter women and men who prefer darker women.

If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

I read a lot of studies about the fact that there is a bias in the way health care is doled out, down to the fact that most medical studies are done on men, not women, so most dosages are planned for men, not women, and on and on. And more than that, women's pain is gauged differently and their complaints are received differently. And the idea that there's a place where you can go where everything is geared toward you, as a woman, is great. But it's a shame that we need to find places that are "safe" when the world, the whole world, should be a safe place.

It's wonderful that we're portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.

I think women should be in women's corner even more, wherever... across the world, women need to be in each other's corners.

Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.

Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too.

You don't have a lot of women doing things for women, so when I'm rapping I gotta talk all this mess so the women can feel as confident and empowered as the men.

Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

I do feel that film and TV are often behind when it comes to the way women look, they often dress them in khakis and denim shirts, but women and mothers these days look great and films need to reflect that. Real people look very fashionable, moms are at the forefront of the style. But things are getting better in that way.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us.

Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that much thought. Men come into it with reluctance about being capsized or trapped or whatever their fear is. When you check in later, women are disappointed because their expectations have not come to pass, and men are pleasantly surprised.

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.

I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

One is always attracted to pieces of theatre with great roles for women.

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.

What fascinates me is that when we look at the history of women in politics, so frequently the women who get the farthest are the women who are quite conservative in their political views.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

I have such respect for women. My mother was one of the great people I've of known in my life.

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

When women gather, great things will happen.

You don't find women with great confidence dressed as if they don't care.

Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

It's no secret that I love women. I think everyone loves women. And I like having beautiful women around me.

I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of 'women supporting women' and forget that they didn't lend the same kind of support.

Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently, are lesbians.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

I think society perpetuates a lot of mixed messages about what it means to be beautiful for all women, but especially for black women and women of color.

All my politics and campaigning has been around issues that affect women: violence against women, welfare cuts to women.

All the women in 'Coronation Street' and 'Brookside,' they are all so funny. A lot of women bore me, but I love the strong women in soaps.

Women who decide to wrestle are a special type of women. We are tomboys, we are women that can hang in a locker room. I am just grateful that there are outlets for that.

I want things to be great for people of color and for women.

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, "This is one of the great ones."

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

I don't see why clothes have to be women's or men's. It seems pretty limiting. I buy women's pants, women's shoes - everything, really.