Quotes on Women

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

Denying the rights of women and girls is not only wrong in itself; it has a serious social and economic impact that holds us all back.

I think valuing what your body can do over how your body looks is the No. 1 advice I would give to young women about how to have healthy body image. It's not, 'Do these pants fit?' It's 'Can I do a split?'

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

I can't tell you how many resumes we get from business schools across the country from black women and black men and Hispanic women, men, etcetera, who say I'm interested in working for your company because they can see someone at the top who looks like them.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.

The one thing I would say is, I do think women are evaluated differently than men. How we look, what is our age? Do you see a ton of 55-year-old women in sports television? No. But there are men in their 60s and 70s across many networks who are still in sports television.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.'

Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life.

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Having been in some roles that really resonated with women, I became hyper-aware of how women are represented in Hollywood.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.