Women Quotes - Page 14

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I refused to take no for an answer.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.