Women Quotes - Page 92

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.

If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Woman, last at the cross, and earliest at the grave.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.

MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.