Women Quotes

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

Tim Allen

Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

Zoe Lister-Jones

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Wangari Maathai

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

Anastasia Griffith

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Agnes Macphail

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

Agnes Macphail

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

Antonio Munoz Molina

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Alice S. Rossi

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Bella Abzug

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

Ban Ki-moon

Equality for women is progress for all.

Ban Ki-moon

Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

Ban Ki-moon

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Billie Jean King

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Charlotte Bunch

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Connie Chung

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Charles Fourier

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Carolyn Maloney

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

Carre Otis

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

Christine Pelosi

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Erica Jong