W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.”
Source: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too.”
“Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. But that's ridiculous. My mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.”
“Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.”
“Women need to work together if we want to dispel the myth that there’s only room for one woman at the table.”
Source: Female Firebrands: Stories and Techniques to Ignite Change, Take Control, and Succeed in the Workplace
“Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis following disclosure.”
Source: Mothers of Incest Survivors: Another Side of the Story
“Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?”
Source: Woman: An Intimate Geography
“Women never cease to impress and inspire me.”
“Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.”
“Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852”
“Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.”
“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”
“Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.”
“Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.”
“Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.”
“Women never stalk men; they just research them intensely.”
“Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.”
“Women no longer need to be in a relationship. You can pay for your own life, you can have children on your own, basically do whatever you want on your own. So if you're going to create an addition to your life, it should be about love. That makes me happy.”
“Women non-combatants always see battles from a different perspective. Not in the battlefield and consigned to waiting, they find things to do. Anything to feel useful, to stave off the helpless feeling that the men you love might be dead or dying. It's a woman's way to measure a battle, by the length of time it takes to wash your floor.”
Source: The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Metis Nation
“Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it—every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.”
Source: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
“Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters.”
“Women notice details that most men don't. They notice if your belt and shoes match. They notice what kinds of foods you like to eat. They notice all the details, then make assumptions about every other area of your life based on these details.”
“Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.”
“Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.”
“Women now make up approximately half of the workforce - very positive. Two-thirds of all families are either headed by a single-head of household or two working parents, and particularly in this economically challenging time, that second income is more important than ever. However, women are still only earning 75 percent of what men are earning.”
“Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.”
Source: A Gate at the Stairs
“Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.”
“Women observe subconsciously a thousand details without knowing to do so. Subconscious mind add these things together. And they call the result "intuition". Me, I am very skilled in psychology. I know these things. (Poirot)”
Source: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
“Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.”
Source: Masterpieces of murder
“Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.”
Source: Essays in feminism
“Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.”
Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“Women of all ages in countries around the world are raped at all different times of day, in different circumstances, wearing all different kinds of clothing (including in countries where the majority of women wear completely covering clothing). The one thing they all have in common? They came into contact with a rapist.”
“Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.”
“Women of all looks, shapes, sizes, everything, if they recognize how beautiful they are-because they all are-then they carry it that way. And you can see that. Confidence is reflected in how they walk and how they dress and how they speak and how they carry themselves. It's just amazing. And that can turn anybody's head pretty quick, especially mine.”
“Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.”
“Women of color are called on to fix the racial disparities in their companies, and it's a huge and exhausting undertaking, especially because it's ultimately not the people of color who still create the change. The workers in the majority groups, and leaders in power - those are the people who will foster change. Everyone else can support the effort, but it's the power players who will be calling the shots.”
Source: What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
“Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.”
Source: Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
“Women of color, particularly Black girls from economically challenged strati, we are told from the minute you start showing signs of being able to be impregnated: Don't get pregnant. You can't have sex because you might get pregnant. You can't wear short shorts because you might get pregnant. Don't talk to boys because you might get pregnant.”
“Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.”
“Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.”
“Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.”
“Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.”
“Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.”
“Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Women of God can never be like women of the world.”
“Women of honey-sweet voices, my limbs are weak.
They will not bear me. I wish, ah, I wish I were
a carefree kingfisher flying over flowering foam
with the halcyons—sea-blue holy birds of spring.”
“Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.”
“Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a great deal; but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.”
“Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.”
Source: The Country Wife