Women Quotes

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Gale Sayers

It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

Garry Shandling

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

George Bernard Shaw

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Gertrude Stein

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men beha...

Gloria Steinem

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

Gloria Steinem

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

Gloria Steinem

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

Gloria Steinem

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

Gloria Steinem

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

Gloria Steinem

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Gloria Steinem

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

Gloria Steinem

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

Gay Talese

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

Gianni Versace

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

George Weinberg

Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing throu...

George Will

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

Gao Xingjian