W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.”
“Women should be women and not babies that need petting and correction all the time. I know we like to be appreciated but if we do not get all the appreciation which we think is our due, what matters? We know the Lord has laid high responsibility upon us, and there is not a wish or desire that the Lord has implanted in our hearts in righteousness but will be realized, and the greatest good we can do to ourselves and each other is to refine and cultivate ourselves in everything that is good and ennobling to qualify us for those responsibilities.”
“Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight.”
“Women should feel happy with their bodies and not live with the stigma that comes from not looking like models in fashion magazines.”
“Women should feel more liberated to say you know what? I can't bake the cookies for the school bake sale because I just don't have the time. Or I'm really sorry, but I can't do this at work because I've got too much else going on this week. We have to be more up front in saying no, for lack of a better word, and then modeling that for others.”
“Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.”
“Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.”
“Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.”
Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'.”
“Women should have silk stockings and be fulfilled.
There is nothing like a silk stocking on a bad rainy day
When your hair is oily and you live in a cold Garçonnière
You put on the heater at six even though you’re supposed to keep it at three
It’s just another lemon tree,
Even on a Wednesday.”
“Women should have the freedom to do whatever they need to do to feel good about themselves.”
“Women should have the same rights and respect and paychecks and everything, you know, they're human beings.”
“Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.”
“Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it slide.' Love is happiness, not being neglectful, caring, being respectful, providing, having standards, kindness, standing up for the right things.”
“Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.”
“Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.”
“Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.”
“Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.”
“Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.”
“Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.”
“Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.”
“Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice, and chewing the skin to make it soft for 999 thousand years, while the men were having fun in the open chasing deer and fighting among themselves.”
“Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.”
“Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.”
“Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.”
“Women should occupy their time with things that suit their sex; cooking, cleaning, knitting, and beauty tips. Countless are those times when a woman is denounced for doing something for the mere reason that it is not for the ladies to do; says who? I got no memo detailing who does what and why.”
Source: Tear the Veil 1: 19 Extraordinary Visionaries Help Other Women Break their Silence by Sharing their Stories and Reclaiming their Legacy!
“Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.”
“Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it.”
“Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.”
“Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?”
Source: The Collected Stories
“Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.”
“Women should stop talking so much during sex. Screaming is okay.”
“Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down.”
“Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.”
“Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.”
“Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.”
“Women should work with local and state leaders and be vocal about ensuring there's more diversity and more women involved.”
“Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum.
"Neither should men, in my opinion.”
Source: Shards of Honour
“Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires.”
Source: Three Women
“Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.”
Source: Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
“Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.”
“Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.”
Source: Killosophy
“Women show off their personality and character through accessories more than with low-cut shirts and skirts with huge slits.”
“Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.”
Source: The Colby essays ...
“Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“Women slagging off other women for perceived physical imperfection is like farting in a spaceship: everyone on board suffers, including she who dealt it.”
Source: More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age
“Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.”
“Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just shrunk up - unevenly I might add - and eventually turned into wine-cork nubs. Then it would be a different story. Then men would get the pity that they deserve. As far as I'm concerned, baldness is the male breast cancer only worse, because almost everyone gets it. True, it's not life threatening. Just social-life threatening. But in New York City, there is no difference.”