Woman Quotes
Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
Jane GoodallJane Goodall So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A women’s place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that’s why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
Dolores HuertaDolores Huerta The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Best of wives and best of women.
Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good.
Kate WinsletKate Winslet It’s tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, ‘Oh, look, another quirky girl.’
Paloma FaithPaloma Faith If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes I am world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.
Nicole LyonsNicole Lyons The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson WellesOrson Welles When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.
Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
Michelle ObamaMichelle Obama Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville