W Quotes
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“Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'”
“Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.”
Source: Camille
“Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.”
“Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.”
“Women sometimes have the problem of trying to judge by artificial light how a dress will look by daylight. That is very like the problem of all of us: to dress our souls not for the electric lights of the present world but for the daylight of the next. The good dress is the one that will face that light. For that light will last longer.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“Women sometimes really love to look at other beautiful women on the screen. But they don't look at a woman the way a man looks at a woman. They want to be that woman. They like if a woman is beautiful or sexy, especially if she's powerful. They like to see her catch a man, or to be powerful in the world. I think this is why a lot of women love noir films and classic films because they can really identify with these really strong, beautiful women. That's the kind of power that women have lost culturally.”
“Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.”
Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel
“Women speak an average 18,000 more words a day than men do. And there may be a genetic reason, it may be neurologically. Not that there's anything wrong with it. See, this is the thing. When you make the observation that women talk 18,000 more words a day than men, it's immediately taken as a criticism because it implies inequality. It implies that there's something wrong with women.”
“Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.”
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”
Source: The Snake Has All the Lines
“Women speak in the superlative.”
“Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.”
“Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.”
“Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.”
“Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact.”
“Women spend all their lives looking for a Hero.
But sadly enough, there isn't a Jesus for every Magdalena.”
“Women spend more time thinking about what men think than men actually spend thinking.”
“Women spend the money of society on its goods.”
“Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.”
“Women still can't have it all.”
Source: What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know
“Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.”
“Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.”
“Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.”
“Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.”
“Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.”
“Women still routinely get passed over when everyone sits around the table and says, "What's our list of 10, 20, 30 directors that we wanna put at the top of our list for this project?" You need more people who are either women who care about this issue or men who care about this issue, who are sitting in this room and saying, "Guys, where are the women? We need to be going out to women." And particularly in the projects that really could use a fresh feminine perspective, whatever that ultimately means.”
“Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that. I applaud other actors who do that and I am not ripping on them, but to me, that's a badge of honor if you're fighting this disease.”
“Women stress-test their relationships for excellence, the same way that government stress-test banks and that factories stress-test backup generators. You need to see what things do when the shit hits the fan, so that when it actually hits the fan, you’re safe.”
Source: sciVive
“Women strive to be the change they want to see in the mirror.”
Source: The New Land
“Women suffer an immense burden of impression management concerning everyday behaviours, many of which are the same behaviours required for success. Assertive women risk being seen as 'bossy,' whereas assertive men are considered 'decisive.' Women prepared to have a difficult conversation are 'ball breakers,' whereas men are just expected to 'speak the truth.' Women risk being perceived differently to men for displaying the same behaviours, saying the same things, in the same way, in the same context. Women feel the pressure of considering how they will be perceived to avoid being judged less favourably.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“Women suffer higher rates of depression than men because their survival and reproduction depends more critically on the integrity of social networks (which provide help, protection, and resources). For this reason, they have a stronger evolved motivation to avoid social stressors, a lower tolerance for cues of social conflict, and more intense emotional responses when conflicts break out.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.”
“Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.”
“Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say "Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed; get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo.”
“Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment.”
“Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.”
“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”
Source: Moon Is Harsh Mistres
“Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.”
Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies
“Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.”
“Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.”
“Women tell us that they do feel patronized. They do feel like they don't have the time and the space to have their questions answered.”
“Women ten years ago were much more of the household property than is the case now. It's not to say that if you go backcountry you don't also find that. And there's a tremendous education campaign that is needed to apprise women of their rights.”
“Women tend to act heroically within their own moral universe, regardless of whether anyone else knows about it - donating more kidneys to nonrelatives than men do, for example. Men, on the other hand, are far more likely to risk their lives at a moment's notice, and that reaction is particularly strong when others are watching, or when they are part of a group.”
Source: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
“Women tend to be categorized as Madonnas or whores.”
“Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.”
“Women tend to be more interested in reconciliation. A Kenyan woman leader said to me, "You know, in a war, men and women want different things. The men care a lot about territory. And they care where the borders are. And they want this whole state. The women," she said, "they want a safe place." And she put her fingers like this, "They want a safe place for their children to go to school without being shot, for their daughters to not be raped."”
“Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.”
“Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.”
“Women tend to be problem solvers. We work together.”