Top 1200 Working Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.

The year before was my first collection for Emilio Pucci, and I was just starting the job and working in his Renaissance Palazzo, where Pucci is headquartered, so that inspired me. I found this image in the book. It was an old image of Emilio Pucci hanging out by the seaside with all of these women, and that's exactly how I used to think about this house - more of a lifestyle thing. This beautiful life. So I'm really working on that.

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Today, nobody has a problem with a women working, but every woman invariably faces casual sexism at work.

The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

I think men are more adventurous in that they're more likely to take chances. Women play it safe. But now, maybe more of the women that see how it's working for the guys think, 'I can do that, too'. Maybe they'll pick male players, not necessarily female players; it's just whatever that match is that works for that player.

Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

I have had the opportunity to meet men and women working in the sex trade in my travels to Mexico's northern and southern borders.

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

I love working with Prada, I would do it all the time if I could. Working with them is like working on a film: it is very collaborative.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.

Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are.

The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation's history.

I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

When you're working with somebody else in that kind of way, you always have to have these guidelines to what you're doing - especially when you're working with your sibling. But when you're working by yourself you're free to do whatever you like.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women, but this is not the point.

Jennifer Lopez and Sara Bareilles are my tops! Both incredibly hard-working and talented women.

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

I thought that one of the things women like to do is eat. So I started working on a game concept based on eating.

It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

We both [with Donald Trump] share a desire to ensure that governments are working for everyone and particularly that governments are working for ordinary working families and working-class families. And I think that's important. That's what I've spoken about.

We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability for costs incurred in providing care for their children while the mothers are working. In October the Commission on the Status of Women will report to me. This problem should have a high priority, and I think that whatever we leave undone this year we must move on this in January.

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children - we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

I've seen what power women have in unification, and I would love to create co-working spaces and networks for female entrepreneurs.

This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now.

I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.

It was a pleasure working with Q Entertainment. I don't focus on working with one company but rather with multiple companies, and I look forward to working with others.

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present the idea of being a writer into poorer communities because the majority of black people in this country are working class. We need to let working-class people know that their voices are important.

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.

All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.

I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.

I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

Throughout my working life, I've been either one of very few women or the most senior woman in the place.

I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.

I am done apologizing for being ambitious and I stand for all those women who don't want to apologize just because they are working.

I think too many politicians are not listening to the men and women they represent, and if we're going to change the path America is on, we have got to be fighting for policies not that benefit the giant corporations and the banks and the special interests and the lobbyists, which is what Washington focuses on every day, but instead every policy needs to focus on the working men and women, the truck drivers and the steelworkers, and the young people.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

I've been working hard. I'm working on my wrestling, grappling more and I'm always working on my cardio.

I strongly feel about women's rights because I have been working for menstrual hygiene across India.

Labour is the party of the NHS and the environment and fighting for better workplace and civic rights for working men and women.

Hard-working men and women who have made America the strongest nation in the world are betrayed by Washington's trade policy.

I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.

I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.

I think everyone should be creative in some way, otherwise you have no self-respect. That's why I believe in women working.

Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

I love working with women directors because of their emotional functionality and can undeniably connect with them on a fairly personal level.