Top 1200 Tall Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Women are much more discriminating. I think both types of people are equally interested in having an attractive partner. But women essentially give the thumbs up to only half as many guys as guys giving the thumbs up to women.

I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.

Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

My favorite kick is the roundhouse. I'm very capable of kicking a tall person in the head with a roundhouse.

And here's Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.

I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir.

Tall, completely jacked, steroids, like multiple growth hormones. That's, like, the type that I'm attracted to.

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

I like tall girls because I like someone to look up to.

Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.

I'm a firm believer in young, old, tall, short, doesn't matter. Basketball is basketball. It's the way you approach it.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

In real life, I knew that fandom was made up of women, and women of color, and women of all ages. But on the publishing side of comics, it was a lot of white, straight men. It was often jarring to me to be the only women at a meeting or at a panel at a comic-con. Fortunately I had mentors who were not blinded by my gender and who said, "Yes, we know you can write these books." That hasn't been the case for everyone. What gives me great hope is that in the eight to nine years since I've started, I've seen tremendous growth.

Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

Her bikini - small; heels - tall She said she liked the ocean.

I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.

I kind of expect that the people wouldn't know me. I know I'm tall and I cannot escape that.

Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.

I had no idea I was going to be this tall. Had I known that, I honestly would have stuck to basketball.

We need more female directors, we also need men to step up and identify with female characters and stories about women. We don't want to create a ghetto where women have to do movies about women. To assume stories about women need to be told by a woman isn't necessarily true, just as stories about men don't need a male director.

I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.

A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

Yoda is interesting because, in addition to being wise, he is two feet tall, and a Yoda.

Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.

I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.

I'm never happy with my face, my hair, I haven't really got any boobs and I'm not really that tall.

I have not met a man as tall as me who is as quick as me, ever.

In our performance reviews with women, we need to be saying, "Are you reaching enough? Are you applying for jobs when you meet some of the criteria like men, or are you waiting to meet all the criteria like women do?" There's so much we can do to encourage women to take on more and believe in themselves.

The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength - although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

It's significant that four out of the five nominated comedies were run by women. That's not by accident. Women are storytellers, too. What's particularly exciting is that when it started to change, it changed very quickly, which I think indicates that women have been waiting in the wings for a long time and were ready to take storyteller center stage.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

I love a little bit of glamour and I love tall girls.

I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall.

I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.

Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.

I am a tall girl and I am not petite so maxi dresses look good on me.

We have to be cultured in our criticism of a tall leader like our Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse.

I like stripper shoes. I like being tall because I'm claustrophobic.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.

We made this mountain with 'Vulgar Display Of Power,' and that was a pretty damn tall mountain to climb.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds [when they meet me].

What's so wonderful about being 6'3". What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

It's true that my body's not small and my style is not defensive. I am aggressive, and I am tall.

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.

If I'm a criminal, and I'm confronted with a 7-foot tall cop and an albino cop, I'm gonna be so lost, I'm spilling my guts.