Explore Quotes on Women

From a very young age, boys are taught that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about girls and women, show extraordinary athletic prowess, avoid looking studious, don't do anything to display supposed emotional 'weakness' and prioritise competition over cooperation.

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

The Central American isthmus is a region of great contrasts, but also of heartening unison. Millions of men and women share dreams of freedom and progress.

Men are attracted to youth and beauty; women are attracted to power.

My mom, my aunts, and all the Nigerian women in my life have been so fierce and strong. I have only grown up around powerful women, so I have a strong sense of self and our power.

From my youngest brother to immigrant women to black queer folks, those are the people who keep me going. When I think about their various acts of courage, it reminds me that I am not alone and that we can do even more, and we deserve more, so we have to keep going.

I usually get called misogynistic, usually by women, and what do they know? They're not even men.

Peter O'Toole - I really loved that man. They sent me into the desert, and I lived there with him for 100 days. And there were no women! Can you believe it?

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

The She Rocks Awards does so much for women in music, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.

Well let me just say, for a man, a lot of how your approach and you're dealing with women comes from your mom.

I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

Women are amazing lovers.

We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.

Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.