“ There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women. Vera Farmiga
“ Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us an… Rick Perry
“ I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think… Megan Fox
“ [The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, no longer can manage. It is seeking right now to u… Naomi Wolf
“ You must go further than I did, Nedra said. You know that.Further?With your life. You must become free.She did not explain it; she could not. It was not a matter of living alone, though in her case th… James Salter
“ Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know t… Margaret Atwood
“ We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women. Alexander McCall Smith
“ To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy. Neal Stephenson
“ They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel. Betty Smith
“ They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel. Betty Smith
“ They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So when the bread didn’t rise, and the fish wasn’t quite done a… Zora Neale Hurston
“ The school song at Accrington High School for Girls was 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,' a terrible choice for an all-girls' school, but one that helped turn me into a feminist. Where were the famous w… Jeanette Winterson
“ The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it w… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I threw her the e… Jim Butcher
“ Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life. Erica Jong
“ She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike. Jack Kerouac
“ She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she doesn't control it; she is at its mercy; oh, can there be anything more beautiful than… Milan Kundera
“ Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything worthwhile, and eel pie besides. Connie Willis
“ On Stripping Bark from Myself(for Jane, who said trees die from it)Because women are expected to keep silent abouttheir close escapes I will not keep silentand if I am destroyed (naked tree!) someone… Alice Walker
