W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.”
“When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.”
Source: Lean In for Graduates
“When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.”
“When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.”
“When women agree with me I always do the other thing”
Source: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
“When women and blacks were let in, the system didn't miss a beat. When gays are given their equality, the system will be as stable/unstable as it was before. And when animals are liberated one day, the world will be a beautiful place and the system will still function.”
“When women and girls experienced throughout life such systematic sexual aggression from men it was realistic and reasonable for women to be resistant to and suspicious of male sexuality. The focus moved away from women as the problem to a critique of male sexual behaviour and an analysis of the ways in which men's sexual violence sustained their power.”
Source: Anticlimax: a feminist perspective on the sexual revolution
“When women and girls rise,
their communities
and their countries rise with them”
“When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love. Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage and strengthen our commitment.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“When women and non-binary people make art with the intention of raising consciousness, they are not only contributing to the feminist fight, they are demonstrating that feeling is a way of knowing and a powerful starting point for building a political framework. Affect, the ability to be moved, should never be underestimated. It is what brings us to feminist politics and what sustains us.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“When women approached the uppermost ranks at their companies, skepticism about suitability for leadership suddenly came to the fore. Their performance wasn't typically in question, but their fit for leadership was.”
Source: Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work
“When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.”
“When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.”
“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.”
“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.”
“When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.”
Source: No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power
“When women are empowered and their rights respected, they overcome any kind of poverty and become more powerful.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.”
“When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.”
Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye
“When women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be”
Source: City of Girls
“When women are happy don't have stress or problems. They want to enjoy themselves. They go after and hang around with bad guys. When they are not happy. They have stress and problems. They go to to the good guys asking for help. It is like bad guys deserve their happiness and good guys deserves their sadness.”
“When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.”
“When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.”
“When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.”
“When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”
Source: A Pair Of Blue Eyes (Annotated Edition)
“When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.”
“When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is about confidence and assertiveness and motivation and drive and focus. So that to me, explained why for 5,000 years female sexuality has been targeted.”
“When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.”
“When women ask me what I do for a living, I’m going to tell them I earn money the old-fashioned way. Then I’ll go on to explain that I somehow managed to get my name added to an African Charity list, and generous Americans donate eight dollars a month so that I can afford to feed myself, but that I spend it all on my new Twitter blue check.”
Source: Don't Even Get Me Started On The Beastie Boys
“When women begin to doubt or ignore the voice of their conscience, they become their own worst enemies. They then even wonder why love seems so elusive.”
Source: How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul
“When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.”
“When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.”
“When women can decide whether and when to have children, it saves lives, promotes health, expands education, and creates prosperity—no matter what country in the world you’re talking about.”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.”
“When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.”
Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin
“When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.”
“When women consciously reject beauty culture, it can be liberating. Women express that they are reclaiming their bodies and developing a heightened self-confidence. Becoming tattooed often makes women feel "closer in line with their own self-image.”
Source: Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body
“When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny”
“When women do better, economies do better.”
“When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.”
“When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.”
“When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.”
“When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is.... Not cooperation but assassination. Women will cooperate until they attain certain goals. Then one will begin to destroy the other.”
“When women gather, great things will happen.”
“When women get on competing, those aren't real women after all. Real women are those who empower the other, and they aren't found in parties or social gatherings”
Source: Laiza- Sometimes the end is only a Beginning
“When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.”
“When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.”
Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul