Quotes on Women

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school, and that single-sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women and to not compete with or compare myself as much because we were all allowed to be ourselves and be unique and kind of have our unique strengths.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

I would like to make sure, first of all, that our women in the informal sector - I mean, these are the farmers and the traders; many of them are not educated, many of them lacking literacy - be able to give them better working conditions. And we've done a lot to be able to achieve that.

It's something most people of color and most women have been burdened with their whole lives, having to suppress your natural emotion to make everybody else feel comfortable. Repeatedly having to do that takes its toll.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Somehow, there is this feeling that women require remedial financial education, and so everything must be dumbed down. The reality is that we all need a lot more education, but guys just go ahead and invest anyway.

I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That meant that only so many women could advance. But in a world where women recognize the power that they own - and where technology can upend the traditional rules of engagement - one woman winning doesn't mean another loses.

The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.