Women Quotes

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

You just keep pushing.
You just keep pushing.
I made every mistake that could be made.
But I just kept pushing.

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.