- Nov 07, 2020
Woman Quotes
On being seen, and being heard, as a woman.
This set touches on the extra scrutiny women face in performance careers and the emotional stakes of being noticed romantically. For related identity-focused lines, see I Am.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and first female prime minister of the Muslim world. All in one year! For her detractors, this wasn't good enough. She was unacceptable because she was a woman.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn't get any good parts, so I'm blessed.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divorce can be tough when the woman is the breadwinner. But the Lord can make the dark light.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
- Sexy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.
- Gravel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020