Never underestimate the incredible power of words!
They have the ability to motivate, inspire, educate, energize, and mobilize us.
Women from both the past and present, hailing from diverse countries, backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and professions, have invaluable insights that are truly impactful.
Here are 150 thoughtful quotes about Women
"I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country."
- Ted Cruz
"Republican women bring an important voice to the table."
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
"When women are more educated, the nation progresses."
- Rajpal Yadav
"Women feel like they have to choose. Am I going to have a career or am I going to have kids and that's not a decision that men have to make."
- Angela Yee
"It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world."
- Teri Hatcher
"A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you are going to get your hair that straight, especially in the summer."
- Claudette Colvin
"The funniest women I've known are Southern. It is such a vital way to get what you want. Charm and grace and a sense of humor will take you a long way."
- Connie Britton
"When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations."
- Gustave Moreau
"There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level."
- Parker Posey
"I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Can't complain; the food is great."
- Theophilus London
"Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives."
- Ralph Lauren
"I love women's tennis, and I want it to do well. But I don't want to pander. I don't have to be warm and fuzzy. I just want to be respected."
- Pam Shriver
"We deserve the same things that cis women do, the same things that other humans do, from our social lives to our families to love."
- Indya Moore
"There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.'"
- Megan Follows
"I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition."
- Alex Morgan
"When I started on 'Big Bang,' I was the only girl; I felt like I had four brothers. Then Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik came on the show, and we got really close. Because of that, I'm not so quick to judge other women, and now I have all these amazing new girlfriends."
- Kaley Cuoco
"If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational."
- Samantha Bond
"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain."
- Mary Wollstonecraft
"There have always been funny women. But in some ways, it takes a while for there to be women who were watching women on television for years and then grow up and think, 'I could do funny stuff.'"
- Megan Ganz
"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."
- Mortimer Adler
"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."
- Margaret Thatcher
"There's a strong wave of songs by women. Even if the songs are collabs, women have the intro and the chorus, which is what people can sing. We're getting the credibility, the spaces in the award shows, and people want to hear our point of view."
- Karol G
"I have four sisters at home, and both my mom and dad worked, and both of them took care of us. It wasn't like my mom was fully domestic, or my dad was fully domestic: they were just equals in their relationship. So I grew up with the perspective that women should be pursuing their dreams and not have to depend on a guy."
- Daya
"Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws."
- Okky Madasari
"I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes."
- Karen McDougal
"I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate. She's really been able to captivate men and women in a way that's appealing, which is a tough line to follow."
- Spencer Grammer
"I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits."
- Seal
"I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of."
- Lena Waithe
"One in 10 women will get breast cancer at some stage in their life and that's quite a scary thought."
- Kasper Schmeichel
"'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls."
- Aaron Sorkin
"Here's the broader inconvenient truth for both Clinton and women's rights that Trump is more than willing to tell voters: Islam, as it is practiced in most countries around the world, suppresses women's rights - the only issue is the degree of severity of the repression."
- Peter Navarro
"At the end of the nineteenth century, a fanatical craze for physical fitness swept through Britain. Millions of men and women took up gymnastics, body building, and other physical exercises. Such a thing had never happened before, and it was given a name - Physical Culture."
- Adam Curtis
"We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more."
- Pierre Cardin
"I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor."
- John C. Mather
"Real men don't know what they want for Christmas. Despite the fact I'm deeply disappointed every Christmas. I pride myself on not wanting anything. Children want things, women want things, dogs and cats want things, but men don't."
- Sean Lock
"Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself."
- Roseanne Barr
"I did suffer from sciatica, which was one of the most painful things I've ever experienced. Lots of women love being pregnant and say they feel really womanly, but I felt really ungraceful and struggled a bit with that!"
- Tamzin Outhwaite
"Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status."
- Eugene Kennedy
"Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices."
- Robert Gottlieb
"I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home."
- Nick Hornby
"I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged."
- Patty Jenkins
"Republicans have always talked about having a big tent, but it doesn't do any good if the tent doesn't have any chairs in it. Bringing Latinos to the forefront, bringing women in is absolutely critical."
- Cory Gardner
"When I say, 'I want women to have access to authentic female healthcare,' I mean that I want women to have access to healthcare that supports their natural femininity. I mean that I want women to have access to healthcare that doesn't include the use of contraception and abortion."
- Abby Johnson
"The issue of women in the workplace is not a women's issue: it's an economic problem."
- Caroline Ghosn
"Gurls Talk is my baby. It's just about opening up a space within schools where we as women and girls can talk about whatever we want."
- Adwoa Aboah
"The average American husband has relinquished his responsibility as head of his household. Though the wife is partly at fault, he is mostly to blame. I'm not suggesting that women should return to the subservient position before their emancipation when they were virtually slaves of their husbands. But freedom for women can be overdone."
- Lorne Greene
"I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women."
- Felicity Jones
"I have the most utmost respect for the men and women overseas, and I only played a soldier on television. Again, I can only imagine the sacrifices that they make every single day."
- Corey Hawkins
"There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too."
- Halima Aden
"There are less opportunities for women."
- Heather Graham
"I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction."
- Kate Flannery
"I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military."
- Steven Crowder
"If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early."
- Camille Paglia
"I have seven brothers and sisters, and I'm the only one who looks white because my mother has had children by all black men, and then my father has children with other women as well."
- Logic
"Even before I became an artiste, when I barely had the means to support anyone financially, I took care of several destitute women, giving them shelter, food and clothing."
- Roopa Ganguly
"I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act."
- Kate Flannery
"I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin."
- Thandie Newton
"We've got to change the language of how women speak to women and how men speak to women and how we shame them for the decisions that we make."
- Hannah Brown
"Women love lash tinting because it makes the eyes really pop in red-carpet photos."
- Anastasia Soare
"Women shouldn't aspire to a box or a title. They should look toward being leaders."
- Cathy Engelbert
"I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets."
- Penelope Cruz
"When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny."
- Rainbow Rowell
"When WWE announced that the women's division will be getting Tag Team Championships, I don't think there was a girl in the locker room who wasn't totally pumped."
- Natalya Neidhart
"Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions."
- Mariella Frostrup
"I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands."
- Diane Kruger
"If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection."
- Peter Lindbergh
"I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments."
- Ellsworth Kelly
"The women in Europe think I'm the Beatles, they throw me flowers."
- Demis Roussos
"There is not a special place in Hell for people who didn't support Sarah Palin. Do you know what I mean? It's ridiculous. And there is certainly not a special place in Hell for women who don't support Hillary Clinton."
- Rebecca Traister
"I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks."
- Candace Bushnell
"Don't be like my mother when my father had a heart attack. My mother had never handled the finances. I don't ever want to see anybody go through that. Women shouldn't be in that position."
- Lisa Caputo
"A lot of women have been whistle-blowers in the past, and a lot of them have just gotten torn down and treated terribly. One of the things that kept popping up was this idea that if you do whistle-blow about sexual harassment, then that is what will define the rest of your life."
- Susan Fowler
"Our country is eternally grateful for the sacrifices our men and women in uniform make each day."
- Elise Stefanik
"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."
- Bob Edwards
"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women."
- Robert B. Parker
"But then as I got older, I got to know all these amazing artists like Alanis Morissette, Stevie Nicks, Debbie Harry, all these women who are really the creators behind who they are."
- Nina Nesbitt
"Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look."
- Joe Thomas
"When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling."
- Karen Horney
"Beyonce, Stevie Nicks, Ani DiFranco, Cardi B - Women tell awesome stories."
- Justin Tranter
"Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves."
- Barbara G. Walker
"I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies."
- Salman Rushdie
"The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start."
- Mary Barra
"Physically, women have some challenges in the kitchen, like lifting heavy pots on and off the stove. You learn to adapt; you learn to find a way. But the biggest challenge for women in this industry is how to balance a family with such a demanding career."
- Lidia Bastianich
"Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass."
- Ann Richards
"I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple."
- Hubert de Givenchy
"We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them."
- Jenny Slate
"I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King."
- Bresha Webb
"I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes."
- Nadia Giosia
"I grew up in a family of strong independent women."
- Anubhav Sinha
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men."
- Grace Napolitano
"We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues."
- Karrine Steffans
"Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion."
- Rosamund Pike
"This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland."
- John Doolittle
"When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency."
- George Tenet
"It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation."
- Germaine Greer
"I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men."
- Christie Hefner
"And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan."
- Kathleen Sebelius
"Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down."
- Missy Elliott
"I've never been with women, because I'm celibate, as ordered by God, as if I were in a monastery. For me, the church is my wife."
- Justo Gallego
"There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else."
- Felicia Day
"We have seen a lot of barriers removed for women like myself with young children to be able to run for office."
- MJ Hegar
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy."
- Yves Saint Laurent
"India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world."
- M. S. Swaminathan
"I just believe pregnant women need a familiar face, someone who isn't related to them who they may have all this emotional past with, to be there, just for them, during the birth."
- Domino Kirke
"Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776."
- Susan B. Anthony
"I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day."
- Tracy McMillan
"Women really are the stewards of the community and their families."
- Tae Yoo
"I'm no fan of Sarkozy, but I support a ban on face veils because they erase women from society and are promoted by an ultra-conservative ideology that equates piety with the disappearance of women."
- Mona Eltahawy
"Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations."
- Mary J. Blige
"Women's bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it's sad that we get distracted - all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that - they're all distractions."
- Rebecca Ferguson
"Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners."
- Alan Furst
"In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men."
- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
"I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas."
- Nancy Wake
"Early thirties for women is a very intense time. If you want kids, and you're not in a relationship, there's an urgency there, so they're forced to mature quicker. It's easy for a man in his thirties to be immature - you can have kids into your fifties, whereas women just can't."
- Jon Richardson
"Single women will get us closer to gender equality, and that will take many forms, including a reimagining of what families entail and what it means to have a full female life. Also, their presence will force the government to support a population of independent women more capably."
- Rebecca Traister
"Those who have known the quality of my work and the many public statements I have made over the course of my life must know that I am a strong supporter of Women's Rights."
- Angela Lansbury
"What I do with my work is, I give women permission to be angry. Because that's our right. Because it's an emotion. Because it's been taken away from us. Because we've been silenced."
- Rose McGowan
"I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want."
- Mariella Frostrup
"I do look into the details, but I think all women are like that, they like to look into minute details, isn't it?"
- Divya Khosla Kumar
"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
- Clare Boothe Luce
"I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately."
- Erica Jong
"I've been really fortunate to work with a lot of women."
- Margaret Qualley
"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie."
- Gloria Steinem
"It's one thing to say you're feminist, but then what does that mean? Not selling arms to a regime that is the most repressive and probably one of the worst human rights violators, particularly towards women, like Saudi Arabia?"
- Jagmeet Singh
"I've been blessed with so many wonderful women friends throughout my life."
- Deborah Raney
"I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry."
- Jean Rhys
"It can be very hard to find clothing for different body shapes. After all, there are only, what, five companies for plus-size women?"
- Chrissy Metz
"It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still."
- Judy Davis
"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."
- William Shakespeare
"Girls shouldn't be afraid to look messy. They shouldn't have to always fit in with the pretty girls. Our goal as women is not to impress guys."
- Daya
"I want to say to this guy and everyone who thinks that femininity means you don't have the power to think, to write, lead and create, women are capable of doing everything."
- Maimouna Doucoure
"The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men."
- Billie Jean King
"I think it is what you do with your wealth that is important. I don't believe in accumulating money for money's sake. It's one of the reasons I want to do more about helping women."
- Cherie Blair
"Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness."
- Paul Feig
"I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men."
- Alison Wright
"I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you."
- Danielle Dax
"I've been so fortunate to work with so many successful women who are moms as well."
- Lily Collins
"But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished white men and women who were treated as second-class citizens."
- Martin Luther King III
"Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation."
- Dan Lipinski
"I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism."
- Patricia Ireland
"Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine."
- Gough Whitlam
"I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn't crazy."
- Jesmyn Ward
"I think we've been pushing for a lot of years and I do feel like women's lib was talked about a lot in the 70s and I certainly always felt that, you know, as a woman, I could do whatever the heck I wanted."
- Donna Strickland
"Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth."
- Dr. Dre
"The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women."
- Dave Sim
"I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law."
- Taslima Nasrin
"I really like how the characters always has to go through some type of long journey that's like a crazy struggle. And these anime shows give women power. She's always the queen or somebody that you cannot beat - I love that."
- Megan Thee Stallion
"I think that women are often underestimated - our suggestions, our advice, our leadership style. I think one of the reasons that that happens is women are much less likely to blow their own horn and brag about everything that they've done."
- Tina Smith