W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.”
“When women go to see men strip, we never accuse you of hating men.”
“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
“When women got into positions of power, they calibrated and recalibrated tenderness and strength, modulating and correcting. Power and love didn't often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.”
Source: The Female Persuasion
“When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.”
“When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.”
“When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.”
“When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.”
“When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.”
“When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.”
“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”
“When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.”
“When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.”
“When women live rich, in every sense of the word - financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually - everyone wins: you win, your family wins, your community wins, and the world wins.”
“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”
“When women love, they forgive everything...”
“When women make art like men do, their goddesses look divine.”
Source: Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth
“When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.”
“When women negotiate they are often viewed as pushy, but if you think about the way women are viewed at large: we are nurturing, helpful, motherly. Those are all stereotypes, of course, but if you play into them you don't face the same penalties. I struggle with this because I hate the fact that because I am a woman, I am supposed to smile when I go into a negotiation. But it's been shown to work. I shouldn't have to smile, but if doing so means that I am going to get the money and rise in power, then I see it as a necessary evil. Once we're in power, we can have resting b*tch face all day.”
“When women occupy public spaces as persons who understand that for millennia they have been denied their inalienable rights as human beings, they begin to demand the restitution of those rights through the creation of structures within which they situate financial, technical and intellectual resources.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.”
“When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.”
“When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits.”
“when women progress, all of society benefits.”
“When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!”
“When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.”
“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.”
“When women rise without barriers, the future rises with them.”
“When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.”
“When women start to bond over their sexuality, it's very similar to the way that men bond over their sexuality in sports. Men bond over their sexual prowess - their strength, their agility, their power. Women bond over their undulation, their curves, their sensuality - things that are innately feminine. Once you do that, there is no turning back.”
“When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.”
“When women suffer, marriages suffer.
When marriages suffer, children suffer.
When children suffer, families suffer.
When families suffer, communities suffer.
When communities suffer, societies suffer.
When societies suffer, nations suffer.
When nations suffer, the world suffers.
When the world suffers, God suffers.”
“When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.”
“When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.”
“When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.”
“When women talk about problems, men usually resist. A man assumes she is talking with him about her problems because she is holding him responsible. The more problems, the more he feels blamed. He does not realize she is talking to feel better.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“When women think of power, we shouldn’t think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we’re going to do with power, once we have it. Women should be standing up powerfully and passionately for the care and protection of children, as well as the care and protection of the Earth itself. Women’s voices should be front and center in protecting both our young and our habitat. That’s the way it is in any species that survives.”
“When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.”
“When women thrive, economies thrive.”
“When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.”
“When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*”
Source: The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
“When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.”
“When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the US economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.”
“When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.”
“When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.”
“When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.”
“When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.”
Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
“When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.”
“When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.”
“When words & manners leave you no space for yourself
make
very personal
very clear
& your obstructions will join you or disappear.”