W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.”
“Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.”
“Women hold all the power. They should use it like a whip, not offer it up like a sacrifice.”
“Women hold the pen to history's and herstory's narrative. Let's rewrite it with courage and conviction.”
“Women hold the power because we have the vaginas. If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.”
“Women hold the weight of the world
But you still talk down and call me little girl
I hate that shit
It's a no if she needs to be coerced
My body's not an object or dessert
I am not your bitch
I am not your bitch, wanna see me switch?
Get psycho like they say I am
Scared of me, you flinch
I don't need your inches
Y'all in my mentions
I feel fuckboy rich
Think you're slick?
I burn bridges quick
I won't sacrifice my humanity, sanity
For the dick, I won't”
“Women hold up half the sky.”
Source: The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957
“Women hold up the other half of the sky.”
Source: Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87
“Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.”
Source: The Sex Diaries: Why Women Go Off Sex And Other Bedroom Battles
“Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.”
“Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.”
“Women, if you haven't realized, can be practical and romantic at the same time. We're quite capable of more than one emotion because we're complicated creatures.”
Source: To Disguise the Truth
“Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet illusions must be unmasked - the lies of centuries have got to go - are you prepared for the Wrench?”
“Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.”
“Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.”
“Women in all cultures are expected to do very difficult, time consuming, laborious and high risk unpaid work to give birth and raise children, and in many cultures they remain as an almost entirely unpaid foundation of slave labour that the rest of the economy is built upon.”
“Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.”
“Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.”
“Women in America work so hard and not all of them get their shot. And I feel like I worked hard, but I also got my opportunity, which puts in a different category of blessings.”
“Women in America... cannot trust Mitt Romney to protect our health.”
“Women in Amman are all top notch, in fact. Make-up is an everyday necessity and the hair is always blow-dried or curled. Even the women who wear headscarves are stylish.”
Source: Beige and Blue
“Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like... bottle rockets.”
“Women in business are not just breaking glass ceilings; they are building new foundations.”
“Women in business, women in employment anywhere face a very different set of challenges than their male counterparts.”
“Women in drudgery knew
They must be one of four:
Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
There are composite lives
that women always live”
Source: Out of silence: selected poems
“Women in general, and African American women in particular, are still separated by a veil, albeit an invisible one. As long as women are divided by dichotomies that stem from gender oppression, e.g., virgin versus whore, respectable versus unrespectable, and, ultimately, wife versus the other woman, all of which puts women in competition for men, they will not be able to effectively challenge the structures that support some while not supporting others, and in some cases, even exploiting them.”
Source: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
“Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.”
Source: Diary of H. L. Mencken
“Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.”
Source: The Need to be Loved
“Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!”
“Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.”
Source: Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation
“Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And the evolution will continue. This is not something that happens overnight.”
“Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.”
“Women in leadership are often questioned based on their gender, rather than the performance against the set agenda. That kind of mentality needs to shift in society. Women should be empowered to lead without the fear of being treated differently.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.”
“Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.”
“Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.”
“Women in London must have learned not to breathe,”
Source: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Women in love are pathetic
and I cannot be bothered, for now,
I am back to metaphysics
and my armpits gather hair.”
Source: Where Pain Thrives
“Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.”
“Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.”
“Women in my family are the center of things. All good things emanate from them. The guys usually mess up.”
“Women in my world are respected as much as men.”
“Women in New York have to work much harder to compete with the supermodels for attention.”
“Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.”
“Women, in our world, have never been sacrosanct. This obtuse thinking is merely a delusional conditioning of [man]kind.”
“Women in pain give men confidence.”
Source: Dire Bound
“Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.”
“Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors.”