Women Quotes - Page 97

We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.

I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.

A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.

It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus, Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.