Quotes about women
197 quotes from 127 people
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906Speech at the 38th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Baltimore (15 February 1906)
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)- Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
Gloria Steinem1934–2026“Address to the Women of America” (10 July 1971)- Gloria Steinem1934–2026Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 367
Kate Winsletborn 1975Marie Claire, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Vamps and Tramps (1994), “No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality”, p. 38Actresses can only play women. I’m an actor, I can play anything.
Whoopi Goldbergborn 1955Speaking on The Today Show on January 13, 1986; as quoted in Whoopi Goldberg on Stage and Screen (2013) by Lisa Pertillar Brevard, p. 18.For a woman, forty is torture, the end. I think turning forty is miserable.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Kelly (1969) in interview with William B. Arthur. Cited in: James Spada (1988) Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess. p. 280I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
Courtney Loveborn 1964On women playing rock music, quoted in 1991, from This is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock (2008), p. 71
Sojourner Truth1797–1883Speech at the Women’s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (29 May 1851), in the version Frances Dana Gage published in 1863; the report printed at the time, in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, has no “ain’t I a woman?”
