Being Women Quotes

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

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are. — Amy Dickinson

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

Marriage is more than finding the right person ... it is being the right person! — Elizabeth George

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so. — Oprah Winfrey

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again. — Gillian Flynn

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people. — Laura Riding

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

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead. — Ann Aguirre

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

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding. — Lucy R. Lippard

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

Women like bad boys ... Being a good boy never worked for me. — Jude Law

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

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan. — Marion Jones

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

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

My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them. — Corey Feldman

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

The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family. — Judith Martin

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

In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles. — Jackson Katz

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

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. — Callie Khouri

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories. — Moby