- 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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.
- Random
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
- Nov 07, 2020
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020