Quotes about Woman

What to do with the home … what to do with the family … for the woman who has an Hispanic background.

Bill Kerr

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Jerry Lewis

He loves her and wants to make a nice gesture for her birthday, ... It is certainly a public gesture -- 'I love this woman and I'm not going to give her up.'

Sarah Bradford

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men . . . [but] The Twentieth Century Woman . . . questions the completeness of the story.

Mary Ritter Beard

It also came at a time that the networks weren't liberal about what they showed, and the network panicked when they realized they'd bought a show with a beautiful half-naked woman who moves in with a bachelor and says, 'What can I do for you?' I got a 22-page memo, with specific guidelines of what we couldn't do.

Sidney Sheldon

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran

Her history and her quest for stardom will make a compelling television series: she is a musician, a young woman, and, most important, a human being. She is a young woman who falls in love, has her heart broken, worries about her looks, doesn't always listen to her mother, and hasn't spoken to her father in years.

Judith Regan

As a business that's strategy-focused, I regularly experience bias on the part of male clients who appear reluctant to accept that a woman can deliver meaningful contributions. That makes it very challenging for women-owned companies like my own to elevate their visibility.

Beth Zimmerman

I've always been a hard worker and I get that from my mom, ... She never would take off of work. She's a field worker, doing a man's job, but she's a strong black woman. I can appreciate that and it inspires me to work harder because she's gone through a lot of different things.

Darrell Campbell

You know who's going to get hurt? It's the elderly woman who has never had a claim, never done anything wrong, and her rates are going to go up by 10 percent, and that's not right.

Juan Vargas

I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel like I'm a human being. There are universal human experiences. When you don't put your picture online, they can see your soul before they have preconceived notions.

Evelyn Rodriguez

We think we can convince a jury that a woman with her reputation, a woman who has done the things she has done, should go to prison.

Bill Alexander

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Mata Hari

I have dedicated my life to women's rights. Wherever a woman is oppressed, I will go there and fight for her rights.

Mukhtar Mai

Interesting, ... I can see you're the kind of woman who gets all wrapped up in her work.

Dorothy Palmer

They had been friends for many years and we were delighted to see Lisa in person. She was a very beautiful woman, very refined, and her story was very inspirational to us.

Darlene Pennline

You're getting a genuine female voice in an improvisation. I bring to it a great deal as an actress because I'm scripting myself. If you've got men writing for you, conceivably they're not showing the whole range of what a woman can be, and that can be big.

Christen Sussin

It's inhumane to suggest that a mother of five children and a woman taking care of two young children to go to jail.

Linda Mcglade

It's about men and women working their stuff out. So, if you're a man or if you're a woman, I think you'll have something to relate to in this program.

Mike O'malley

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Robertson Davies

A woman came in Monday and found items to make a hostess gift and a birthday gift. We saved her a trip to Geneva or Enterprise.

Jill White

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

George Balanchine

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

Pete Townshend

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Milton R. Sapirstein

In this audition scene, she is forced to face the hard reality that all her talents mean little -- unless she is prepared to do jungle numbers. Although we deal with the racial strife of the period, the show is primarily concerned with Josephine's journey as an artist and a woman. It's very much an entertainment filled with romance and humor, and not a polemic.

Sherman Yellen

I have people that I don't even know coming up and congratulating me. I was in Wal-Mart the other night and a woman just stopped me to talk to me. We're just trying to stay humble.

Brittaney Thomas

One was from a woman who said the check helped pay for medical care for her dog.

Dema Guinn

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim

Menopause is a perfectly natural process. As family members and friends recognize that this is a normal process and learn about the normal, natural symptoms, they will then treat the woman like she's normal and natural rather than a crazy woman.

Pamela Boggs

"Voir les Anges" - it does a woman good.

Dirty Dancing

This program fulfills an important role in our series about the first woman president. We have two national political figures with expertise on high-profile women's campaigns talking about the nuts and bolts of how this will happen - not if it will happen or when.

Jonathan Earle

You wouldn't believe all the phone calls -- people are having pizza withdrawals, ... One woman called and said, 'You wouldn't believe how upset I am.'

Paul Costa

Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

Jacqueline Bisset

[So a woman who raised ducks grows stronger. As beautiful as were the puffins, it was just as heartening to see these 20-somethings, their clothes faded by salt and sun and splattered by you know what.] They are part of the magic, ... They are part of the miracle.

Stephen Kress

I think there's a strong possibility that she's not alive. If a woman leaves a spouse because of personal issues that's one thing. But to leave every personal belonging, your car, a child and your only source of income for prescriptions ... She left an awful lot just to leave and start over.

Brenda Smith

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.

Diego Rivera

To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world.

Otis C. Edwards

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

Henry Youngman

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

Virginia Johnson

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

Penelope Cruz

I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.

James G. Watt

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Simone de Beauvoir

Behind every great collection, there is a great woman.

Sharon Chang

It could have been much more tragic had the child shot himself or hit the woman in a more vital area.

Pete Crum

[- Kirsten Cohen (Kelly Rowan): At her posh rehab center, Kirsten meets a mysterious woman named Charlotte (Jeri Ryan). Schwartz says that despite the coverage of Marissa's lesbian flirtation last season, Kirsten and Charlotte will not kiss.] We did a lot of that last year, ... Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Josh Schwartz

The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

Jeannette Rankin

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Toni Morrison

Natalie is a very talented and beautiful young woman.

Darlene Pennline

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Margaret Atwood

I've never heard anywhere of someone sexually assaulting a woman in order to set somebody else up.

Donna Kelly

Data such as ours suggest we may need to rethink that traditional teaching. A better approach is to allow the woman to do that which makes her feel more comfortable.

Dr. Steven Bloom

Everyone around here has strong feelings about this, one way or the other. But you can't be sure. If you weren't there in the bathroom with the players and that woman, you really don't know what happened, do you?

Renee Clark

Jack Hylton said: 'I want you, I want you, but I can't offer you the part – it's for a 35-year-old woman'. So, he said: 'I tell you what, I'll make you the understudy and you'll be in the chorus. And I said: 'But I can't dance!' He replied: 'Good, we'll put you on the end of the line and make you the funny chorus girl who always messes things up!'

Annie Ross

Don't be fooled by the dumb blonde routine. This woman is as smart as a rock.

Jimmy Kimmel

I've had one woman who can hardly walk saying she had the urge of wanting to go down there and help out, ... I think it's really touching a chord with everyone in terms of seeing those people.

Jim Walsh

She had no problem with it. We all knew we could have to sit a game out, because we are a five-woman team.

Rhona Martin

The play is about this woman finding a way to live without having someone to look after her.

Shirley Knight

A woman, man -- anyone of legal age -- should be able to drink as much as they want, dress the way they want, say what they want, act how they want. It doesn't give anyone the right to violate them in such a personal way. That is the crime.

Tracy Johnson

I loved her heart for God and for the kids. She was just an incredible woman that touched everyone's life that surrounded her, parents and kids. Everyone was drawn to her.

Sharon Robinson

The rest of the guys come in by themselves, but at least 85 percent consult with a woman -- either a friend of the bride's or his or her mother.

Bart Marks

Grace is an incredible front woman. She's multitalented. A beautiful face never hurts.

Alex Crothers

Here was a woman who through a very unassuming personal action triggered a whole movement, ... I want to pay homage to that. As a white person, I find it particularly extraordinary that her act was such a universal message. It did as much for me as any minority in our society.

Brian Higgins

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Margaret Oliphant

If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-old woman, you think youth doesn't end until 57.

Dominic Abrams

This concept was not invented in some corporation. It came about because of moms who have this problem innovating and coming up with a business model. Over 90 percent of these businesses are owned by moms or have at least one mom or woman as one of the owners.

Bert Vermeulen

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Margaret Sanger

I just think this guy's got to be evacuated from the Liberal Party leadership by close of business today, ... I think that his apology is entirely unacceptable to Helena and that is the greatest insult not only to her but of every woman of Asian background.

Bob Carr

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour [is] the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

Arthur Miller

We need to finish this parking lot, so we can start landscaping. We feel the parking lot also will enhance the neighborhood. We have a young woman who wants to have her wedding here, but she is afraid to get her shoes in the dirt and sand.

Charles Mathis

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Larry Elder

The concerts are good for our community's culture. A woman who has moved here from another area, for example, was so pleased to find a community our size with as many cultural events as we have.

Helen Gould

I know, it's so unfair ! So if (you're a woman and) you match your partner's intake by splitting a pizza, that's a recipe for weight gain.

Cynthia Sass

These new findings suggest the possibility that if a woman starts hormone therapy sooner rather than later, perhaps we will see some of the protective effects on the heart that natural estrogen provides - or at least it won't increase the risk of cardiovascular-related harm.

Dr. Nanette Santoro

When purchased, the Cancer Society will donate the new digital mammogram machine to the Cayman Islands Hospital so that every woman living in the Cayman Islands will be able to benefit from the new medical facilities.

Christine Sanders

I thank God every day for being with Karyn. She is such an incredible woman, of faith and of character. The best part about her is she really helps me with my character. We really balance each other out.

Ben Utecht

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

David Duke

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

Honore De Balzac

This ad is very respectful of women, ... The woman is a spiritual and physical trainer for the warrior, and his mentor.

Bernadette Mansur

I think it's very, very important to have the office and offer free supplies to cancer patients. In fact, one woman didn't even realize breast prostheses were available until she discovered the loan closet.

Bea Fuentes

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.

Cynthia Heimel

Our founder was a woman of great vision who knew early on that women are not small men and shouldn't be treated as such. Her goal was to make the hospital as homelike as possible, and we continue to adhere to her vision today by treating each patient like they're family.

Ceo Anne Saile

Women should know too that any amount of alcohol is unwise during pregnancy. Again, because a woman may be pregnant and not realize it, a woman who could be pregnant and is drinking could be doing harm and not even know it.

Amy Case

Some do it (enter the data), others don't, and some don't believe they have the authority, even though the (Violence Against Women Act) already requires it. I know that in one case, a woman visited five counties to enter her (order for protection). This is a state of emergency. It is one of safety. It is one of life and death.

Lonna Stevens

This is a woman who lived, breathed and died the state of Connecticut. She took things personally, as a mother would _ sometimes too personally _ when things happened in the state.

James Grasso

If you understand a person's origins, you can understand her. I've always had to take care of myself. I couldn't just be that sweet little girl who kept her mouth shut. Had I done that, I'd be long gone by now. In this business, an African-American woman has to protect herself because precious few will.

Anita Baker

(Lee is) a joyful raconteur, a woman with grit, grace and humor. Lee is the desert's lover. Her voice is a torch in the wilderness.

Terry Tempest Williams

So, if you look up John Smith you can see what a woman says about John Smith and you can see whatever John Smith says about whatever was posted.

Tasha Joseph

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Amy Vanderbilt

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Og Mandino

I wound up using 12-pound free weights, which for a woman is pretty good.

Linda Hendrick

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Sojourner Truth

You deal with things - unless you are mad. Generally if a husband leaves a wife for a younger woman, it's horrible but there are ways of dealing with it. What Albee has done in this situation, I say to her, 'I take it you want to talk about it'. Well, how do you talk about something like that?

Michael Hurst

To tell a woman who has suffered through the trauma of rape or an incident of incest and who has been impregnated that she can't terminate her pregnancy because she has not reported it in seven days is a real affront to the sensitivity and trauma of the situation.

Delacey Skinner

Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am.

Tina Turner

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anais Nin

This woman was chronically sick and her family called us for help during the storm, but we couldn't put a vehicle on the roads, ... After the winds died down, there was no way to get to her because Highway 15 where she lived was blocked by fallen trees.

Jimmy White

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home - will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.

Marguerite Duras

One woman in our support group last night was in tears because she went through all this chemo and her boyfriend of three years broke up with her. He said he couldn't handle having a sick girlfriend.

Sharon Miller

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Margaret Sanger