W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.”
“Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.”
“Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.”
“Women cannot be left to bear the burden of calling out inequality simply because they're the ones experiencing it the most acutely.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“Women cannot claim the right to be considered mature and responsible until they decide the course of their lives for themselves and refuse to be a "manipulated group." They will not be truly emancipated untilthe right to work is a matter of course and not of discussion.”
“Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.”
“Women cannot get power by violence, so they need to get power by control.”
“Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.”
“Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
“Women? Certain women? We are more than we think we are. There was always more.”
Source: Of Women and Salt
“Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.”
“Women changed their entire lives, embraced it from one stage to the next and emerged stronger, more resilient for the changing. Men, it seemed, strove to keep life unchanging and predictable. No wonder there were more men in prison. Life excelled in disappointing.”
Source: Swallowtail and Sword: The Scholar's Book of Story and Song
“Women choose men hoping they'll change. Men choose women hoping they won't.”
Source: Why We Die
“Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted. I can understand why men are afraid of them, as they are frequently accused of being.”
Source: Cat’s Eye
“Women come and go. The wives stay.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Women come and go. Wives stick around.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.”
“Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that much thought. Men come into it with reluctance about being capsized or trapped or whatever their fear is. When you check in later, women are disappointed because their expectations have not come to pass, and men are pleasantly surprised.”
“Women come to me and would never tell a male guru the things that they tell me. to me and would never besiege the male guru with some of the things that I hear. And that is because mother is mother and that is the phenomenal thing, it's the most irreplaceable thing in the world because whether we're an earthly mother or a spiritual mother, a divine mother, and everyone is divine by the way, we all have the power of divinity, the power of full consciousness, whether we are awakened to the potential of it all is a different matter.”
“Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.”
“Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.”
“Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.”
“Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.”
“Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.”
“Women complicate everything.”
“Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.”
“Women continue to reward bold moves made by men because of the confidence it displays.”
“Women could abuse other women. Women have abused other women. And queers needed to take this issue seriously, because no one else would.”
Source: In the Dream House
“Women could be villains as well as victims, sometimes both simultaneously, and could simply make bad decisions like everybody else; Jane Parker, Viscountess Rochford's involvement in Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Katherine Howard's downfalls could be read as an example of all three things.”
Source: The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
“Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.”
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a girl's only window on male sexuality were a stream of easily available, well-lit, cheap images of boys slightly older than herself, in their late teens, smiling encouragingly and revealing cuddly erect penises the color of roses or mocha, she might well look at, masturbate to, and, as an adult, "need" beauty pornography based on the bodies of men. And if those initiating penises were represented to the girl as pneumatically erectible, swerving neither left nor right, tasting of cinnamon or forest berries, innocent of random hairs, and ever ready; if they were presented alongside their measurements, length, and circumference to the quarter inch; if they seemed to be available to her with no troublesome personality attached; if her sweet pleasure seemed to be the only reason for them to exist--then a real young man would probably approach the young woman's bed with, to say the least, a failing heart.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.”
Source: From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
“Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.”
“Women create many challenging situations. Occasionally, you may feel amused, frustrated, discouraged, or embarrassed. Women can be a measurement of your success and worthiness if you judge yourself by your achievements. Some of you compare yourself to others. You compare your women to others. You study them to find the perfect woman.”
Source: Jake Hollow's Guide on How to Persuade Women: Revised Female Edition
“Women critics are amazons in climax.”
“Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.”
Source: The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel
“Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes.... They are the supreme realists of the race.”
“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”
Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
“Women deformed by the pornographic sexual template
perceive other women as masturbatory objects.”
“Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well glory in their illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power than their masters: but virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the respectability of life to the triumph of an hour.”
Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects
“Women demand a certain amount of cliteracy from men who dive in head first...”
“Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies while they wage wars and kill other people's babies.”
“Women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into panties. Propaganda and lies to get into office, to get out of court, to get out of paying child support. Get the fuck out of our decisions and give us back our voice. Women deserve better; women deserve choice.”
“Women deserve equal pay for equal work.”
“Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.”
“Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.”
“Women destroy me. I allow them to.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.”