- Life
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knows 'Little Women.' Most women love it if they've read it. If they haven't, they might love the movie, or they've heard of it.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, basically, the whole meaning of 'Little Women' and what it conveys to me is the choice of being any kind of woman.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved reading 'Anne of Green Gables' and 'Little Women' and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
- She
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- Nov 07, 2020
A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge fan of Italian new realism, work by directors like Fellini and Vittorio De Sica. Their image of women is so beautiful.
- Better Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020