Quotes on Woman

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

I'm not only a person of color, I'm also a woman. And I'm not only a woman, I'm also a woman from the Third World. All those elements put together means I have a lot to do.

A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

If we want to create change, we all have to be feminists - men, women, everyone needs to acknowledge that. Sometimes I have more in common with the man than I do the woman in the room.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.

I'm not saying a housewife is in any way inferior to a workingwoman. No, she isn't. But as an activist, as a woman, I would say the choice of being a housewife or pursuing a career should be left entirely to the woman and that choice should be respected.

When people say, 'There aren't enough women on panel shows,' the answer is to make the host a woman.

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

No woman should fear losing her life from pregnancy or childbirth.

I am not a woman on Monday, an immigrant on Tuesday, a worker on Wednesday, and a mom on Thursday, I am all of those things all of the time, and I am going to fight for all of those things all of the time.