7,390 Quotes About Women

I believe in women helping each other feel good about themselves instead of trying to compete.

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

Never underestimate the power of a woman!

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

Dealing in Desire takes seriously the labor of the women I studied. This book views women as, in the words of Caitrin Lynch, 'creative agents in their own lives, not simply as pieces in some global monopoly played by capitalists and state representatives.

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.

I hear your soul cry. I know your shame. I understand your fears, tears, and trauma. Your story matters. Even if you tell it to one safe person, I encourage you to not keep it locked inside your heart. There is something empowering about having the courage to tell our story. To acknowledge, yes, it did happen. Yes, it really was that bad.

Now, it’s certainly not true for *every* woman, but the ones I have had the good fortune to know in my life have all followed this rule.If you need a favor, you bring her flowers.If you need her forgiveness, you bring her jewelry.And if you need both, you bring her a book.