Women Quotes

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

James Woods

Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women.

Kelley Armstrong

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

Ken Follett

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

Kirsty Gallacher

My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause i...

Kathryn Lasky

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

Kathleen Sebelius

I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city ,and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'

Kate Winslet

Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?

Kristen Wiig

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Lindsay Davenport

When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.

Lyndsy Fonseca

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.

Lena Headey

I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.

Lisa Leslie

When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

Lana Parrilla

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Mary Kay Ash

I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.

Mary Barra

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

Michael Burgess

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.

Max Martini

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

Miuccia Prada

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of wome...

Melissa Rosenberg