Retouched Women Quotes

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes. ~ Emma Watson

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. ~ Susan B. Anthony

But it was women like Rudabeh who planted in my mind the idea of a different kind of woman whose courage is private and personal. Without making any grand claims, without aiming to save humanity or defeat the forces of Satan, these women were engaged in a quiet rebellion, courageous not because it would get them accolades, but because they could not be otherwise. If they were limited and vulnerable, it was an audacious vulnerability, transcending the misogyny of their creator and his times. ~ Azar Nafisi

I was just born to swing, that's all. ~ Lil Hardin Armstrong

We do seminars, sometimes, for 7,000 people. These are people, predominantly women, who are seeking, who want to know more, who want to improve the quality of their lives, who want to find themselves. ~ Louise Hay

Those were thoughts I couldn't admit to him, of course. I might have been obsessed with him, but a woman knows if she wants to keep a man forever, she has to act like she could get over him in a day. ~ Colleen Hoover

Beautiful women - they think they can get away with anything. ~ Elizabeth Little

Cam scratched his nape. "You know what I don't get? How women can spend the majority of their lives in shopping malls but still say they have nothing to wear." Lydia snorted. "You know what I don't get? How men can spend the majority of their lives playing sports where they're being trampled on and listening to noisy mobs, yet they're put off by shopping, when it's no different." Both males tilted their heads, conceding that. ~ Suzanne Wright

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity. ~ Amy Dickinson

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge; no fact can deflect their point of view. ~ Louise Erdrich

We should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings
How's can we argue with that? ~ Bernardine Evaristo

You can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction. ~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu

And to Rhaego son of Drogo, the stallion who will mount the world, to him I also pledge a gift. To him I will give this iron chair his mother's father sat in. I will give him Seven Kingdoms. I, Drogo, khal, will do this thing.' His voice rose, and he lifted his fist in the sky. 'I will take my khalasar west to where the world ends, and ride the wooden horses across the black salt water as no khal has done before. I will kill the men in the iron suits and tear down their stone houses. I will rape their women, take their children as slaves, and bring their broken gods back to Vaes Dothrak to bow down beneath the Mother of Mountains. This I vow, I, Drogo son of Bharbo. This I swear before the Mother of Mountains, as the stars look down in witness. ~ George R R Martin

I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens to lots of women; only they submit, and I kick.... When people of a later age look back upon the barbarous customs and superstitions of the times that we have the unhappiness to live in, what will they say! ~ Thomas Hardy

But most men don't expect women to do all the work at home. They just don't care whether or not the laundry gets done or the beds get made. That's a critical distinction. ~ Suzanne Venker

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God. ~ Judy Davis

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy. ~ Alan Jackson

I get angry when women disavow feminism and shun the feminist label but say they support all the advances born of feminism because I see a disconnect that does not need to be there. ~ Roxane Gay

women could never be in the space program, since in zero G a woman's breasts would bounce and keep the men from concentrating. ~ Julie Phillips

It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self. ~ Nikki Rowe

There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth. ~ Sarah Doudney

Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them to see their work in print. In the 1950s, when the comic industry hit an all-time low, there was no place for women to go. Today, because of graphic novels, there's no place for aspiring women cartoonists to go but forward. ~ Trina Robbins

There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold to women - that we're supposed to believe that if we're getting older, we've failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser. ~ Cameron Diaz

Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

897Archer lifted his gaze heavenward as he tilted the dun-colored hat back on his head. "I say my prayers," Archer sighed. "I go to church when I can and I even take old women to the grocery store when they need me to. And this is the thanks I get. ~ Lora Leigh

How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too? ~ Gretel Ehrlich

...and if one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses. ~ Hedda Hopper

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth. ~ Auliq Ice

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people. ~ Anne Sweeney

Three women bonding over household chores - my mother would be pleased if she could see us. That thought hardened my resolve that next week, some of the men would do cleanup. It would be good for them to expand their skill set. ~ Patricia Briggs

Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman. ~ Mikki Kendall

There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire future generations to dream big and strive to achieve those dreams. ~ Joanna Lohman

In the beginning of my career, I read an article about the reason that men always look five years younger than women is because they shave. ~ Christie Brinkley

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look. ~ Miriam Makeba

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ~ Cornelia Otis Skinner

The job is hard enough when the victims are men. But when I see violence done to the innocent, to women or children? It is never easy to observe, or investigate for that matter. ~ Shelley Gray

You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom."
"Oh right," I say interestedly. "So what happened?"
"I wrote it all down," says Laurel. "And then I mailed it to her! ~ Sophie Kinsella