Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy McMillan

I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.

Beth Brooke

Mentorship has been an excuse not to promote women.

I have always enjoyed the company of women.

Adam Carolla

Oprah tells women what to read, what to eat, what to think, what to do...

Ani Difranco

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Ani Difranco

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

Amy Poehler

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

Alison Lurie

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Ann Landers

You're all you've got.

Ann Landers

I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.

Ann Landers

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

Ann Landers

No one can take advantage of you without your permission.

Ann Landers

People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be.

Ann Landers

My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.

Andrea Jung

That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f you fast forward to today and the fact that we're the single largest source of employment for women (broadly speaking, as the reps are independent contractors), we've been an important creator of entrepreneurship for women.

Andrea Jung

The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.

Andrea Dworkin

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Andrea Dworkin

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

Andrea Dworkin

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

Andrea Dworkin

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it.

Andrea Dworkin

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Andrea Dworkin

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Nancy Pelosi

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

Ralph Lauren

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

Alison Moyet

Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

Alice Temperley

It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic.

Anita Borg

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Anita Borg

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

Charlotte Lamb

I think printed fiction is what women read.

Imelda May

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe not many women are going to film school.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.