Women Quotes

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

The more things you do, the more you can do.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.