Quotes on Women

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.