Women Quotes - Page 93

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Successful women have an aura that says ‘I belong in this seat’.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.