Women Quotes - Page 74

I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.

And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.

Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together - women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together, and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.