W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.”
Source: Women & madness
“Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.”
“Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves”
Source: Women & madness
“Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-”
Source: The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
“Women must have economic and social equality with men.”
“Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.”
“Women must leave a record for their men; otherwise how will they know us?”
“Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.”
“Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.”
“Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modern industrial] society.”
Source: Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
“Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.”
“Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.”
“Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.”
“Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.”
“Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.”
“Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.”
Source: A Happy Death
“Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place”
“Women need a reason to have sex, while men just need an angle”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.”
“Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.”
“Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.”
“Women need food, water, and compliments That's right. And an occasional pair of shoes.”
“Women need men like fish need bicycles.”
“Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.”
Source: The traffic in women and other essays on feminism
“Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
“Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.”
“Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
Source: Real Moments
“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”
Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea
“Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.”
“Women need space to grieve, not husbands.”
Source: The Spirit Engineer
“Women need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else...And it's hard for them to leave their families when they don't have somebody to take care of them....It's a vicious cycle that's affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least.”
“Women need their traditional roots. They thrive when accepting their femininity and enjoying the traditions of their ancestors.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Women need time and space to play - particularly when we work so hard”
Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
“Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.”
“Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.”
“Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.”
“Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.”
“Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.”
“Women need to do more. We need to find out what it is we're afraid of, and go beyond.”
Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”
Source: Riding Shotgun
“Women need to feel seen before they can give themselves permission to be sensual.”
“Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.”
“Women need to keep asking for what they’re worth, and leaders need to make sure women are paid the same, whether they ask for it or not.”
Source: Female Firebrands: Stories and Techniques to Ignite Change, Take Control, and Succeed in the Workplace
“Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.”
“Women need to know that they can reject the powerful’s definition of their reality… Many poor and exploited women, especially non-white women, would have been unable to develop positive self-concepts if they had not exercised their power to reject the powerful’s definition of their reality.”
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.”
Source: Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
“Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.”
“Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.”