Quotes on Women

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.

Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.