Quotes about women

A collection of quotes on the topic of women.

„Begum Rokeya had dreamt of a society where women would be magistrates, judges and barristers“

— Begum Rokeya Bengali feminist writer and social worker 1880 - 1932
Context: Begum Rokeya had dreamt of a society where women would be magistrates, judges and barristers and that has come true as many women are already there in such posts.

„Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Hate, Game, Thinking, Time

„I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say "yes women can".“

— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947

Hope, Girl

„Every fetus becomes female unless it is steeped in male hormone, produced by a signal from the testes. Before birth, therefore, a male is already beyond the female. But to be beyond is to be exiled from the center of life. Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.“

— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
p. 19

Life, Men, Birth, Envy

„Thus the social position of women is in this respect very similar to that of philosophers and of the working classes. And we now see why these three elements should be united. It is their combined action which constitutes the moral or modifying force of society.“

— Auguste Comte French philosopher 1798 - 1857
p. 235

„Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal or subjective one. It takes place objectively in practice, once women cease to be viewed as mere sexual beings, once we look beyond their biological functions and become conscious of their weight as an active social force. What's more, woman's consciousness of herself is not only a product of her sexuality. It reflects her position as determined by the economic structure of society, which in turn expresses the level reached by humankind in technological development and the relations between classes.

The importance of dialectical materialism lies in going beyond the inherent limits of biology, rejecting simplistic theories about our being slaves to the nature of our species, and, instead, placing facts in their social and economic context.“

— Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

Nature

„It is well known that I am available twenty-four hours a day to women astronomers.“

— Vera Rubin American astronomer 1928 - 2016
As quoted in Jewish Women's Archive https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rubin-vera-cooper

„I did, however, pass by one young girl, and she was like a goddess who came down from heaven. She was walking alone, in her bathing suit, with her luscious blonde hair blowing in the wind. I couldn’t help but slyly admire her beauty as we passed by each other. I was scared. I was scared that she might view me as nothing but an inferior insect who’s presence ruins her atmosphere. Her beauty was intoxicating! And then, just as we passed each other, she actually looked at me. She looked at me and smiled. Most girls never even deigned to look at me, and this one actually looked at me and smiled. I had never felt so euphoric in my life. One smile. One smile was all it took to brighten my entire day. The power that beautiful women have is unbelievable. They can temporarily turn a desperate boy’s whole world around just by smiling.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

Life, World, Smile, Beauty

„Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.“

— Christine de Pizan Italian French late medieval author 1364 - 1430

Men, Understanding

„Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.“

— Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

Thinking, Personality

„Women are beautiful in the light of the day, but are even more so in the shadows of the night.“

— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966

Beauty, Light, Night

„Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. “

— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991

Understanding, Painting

„Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women – women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in – older women and younger men.“

— Louise Bourgeois American and French sculptor 1911 - 2010
Louise Bourgeois, ‎Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). Bourgeois. p. 76: On the art world

Men, Money, World, Art

„A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.“

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

Men, World, Daughters

„At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.“

— Lucy Lawless New Zealand actress 1968
Robin Eggar (July 27, 1997) "Is it a bird? - Interview", The Sunday Times, p. Style 8.

„I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.“

— Louis XIV of France King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715 1638 - 1715
Comte de Mirabeau. Esprit de Mirabeau (v.1, page 246)

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