Quotes on Women

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.