- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women Quotes
On confidence, identity and being true to yourself.
These quotes discuss women's confidence and identity from a few angles: resisting pressure to act a certain way, and the discipline shown by women serving alongside men in the military. For related reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the shape of my eyes, I can wear a lot of make-up. I can do a smoky look in the evening, but in the day I wear a lot less. Most women don't deal with lip pencils - they have been given a bad name, but are essential, especially as we get older.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.
- Continue
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leave women to find their sphere.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020