Being Women Quotes
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She knew she was being unfair ... ; she knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.
— Milan Kundera
Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."
— Henrik Ibsen
When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
— Warren Farrell
I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!
— Oscar Wilde
To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
— Milan Kundera
Being kissed by Wyoming Knott is more definite than being married to most women.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Being a friend is hard." "If it was easy, anyone could do it." "I love smart women." "Smart women love you." "I'd better go." "Call me later.
— Robert Crais
The day of birth is a sacred day.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.
— Amanda Marcotte
We will all experience the judgment of others when we fall in love. Love with your whole being anyway.
— Julieanne O'Connor
Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.
— Lena Dunham
He's coming to hate the gratitude of women. It is like being fawned on by rabbits, or like being covered with syrup: you can't get it off.
— Margaret Atwood
Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.
— Rebecca West
Being a lady is an attitude.
— Chuck Woolery
To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in
— Phoebe Philo
I know, I know, I'm being a girl.
— Gillian Flynn
Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.
— Michael Rosenbaum
The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.
— Bell Hooks
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
— Ambrose Bierce
Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
— Stella Gibbons
I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.
— Troy Duffy
Women don't have to be jealous of other women.
— Chelsea Handler
Just because you become a mother, doesn't mean you stop being a woman.
— Nicole A. Walker
It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
— Tamara Mellon
Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.
— Jarod Kintz
Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.
— Norman Mailer
There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.
— Margaret Thatcher
Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often.
— Caitlin Moran
I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.
— Bernard Manning
The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
— Andrew Greeley
I think a lot of women wouldn't want to stay in a place where they're being harassed.
— Donald Trump
As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
— Maggie Q
While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.
— Whitney Otto
I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is brutal.
— Christina Applegate
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
— Wanda Sykes
It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.
— Marguerite Rawalt
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
— Oscar Wilde
No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.
— Sandy Brewer
I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists before there was a name for it.
— Carleen Brice
I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music ... healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!
— Judy Collins
Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
— Pink
I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
— Omar Sharif
Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.
— Stephen Merchant
I am now a faded image of my former being,
I let that persona go.
I like myself for who I am and I choose to be, me. — Tina J. Richardson
I let that persona go.
I like myself for who I am and I choose to be, me. — Tina J. Richardson
Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.
— James Tooley
Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
— Betty Friedan
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
— Jose Bergamin
Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.
— Steven Pinker
I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I'm very well endowed.
— Bauvard
You think love is black and white. All women think that. And they're wrong. Women are really intelligent except for when they're being really stupid.
— Liane Moriarty
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
— Criss Jami
Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
— Nalini Singh
I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
— Iris Murdoch
We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.
— Rebecca Miller
The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure.
— Natsuo Kirino
Achati chuckled. You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women.
— Trudi Canavan
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
— Bette Midler
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
— Victoria Woodhull
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
— Alexander Pope
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for - Doing.
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?
— Rodrigo Santoro
in this life love will make you choose between happiness and being a fool, and most of us women get them both confused." I guess
— Shantay
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.
— Heidi Klum
A must have for women? Confidence! Be yourself!
— Hayley Williams
Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.
— Steve Harvey
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.
— Dov Davidoff
Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.
— Judith Light
Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.
— Maureen Reagan
Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864
— Cora Pearl
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.
— Cynthia Heimel
I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.
— Ani DiFranco
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
— Louisa May Alcott
People of color and women are increasingly being shown on-screen. For things to be whitewashed just doesn't make sense.
— John Boyega
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
— Elizabeth Bowen
I think men and women will both agree that one of the perks of being single on Valentine's Day is that you get to keep your money in your pocket.
— Sevyn Streeter
I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.
— Curtis Jackson
If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.
— Laura Schlessinger
Women know intuitively when they are being devalued. (121)
— Robyn Silverman
It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
— Susie Orbach
The social world being the realm of nullity, there exist between the merits of women in society only insignificant degrees,
— Marcel Proust
How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?
— Elie Wiesel