Woman quotes

“Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.” Ingrid Bergman

“Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.” Ingrid Bergman

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.” Simone de Beauvoir

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.” Simone de Beauvoir

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Simone de Beauvoir

“Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.” Simone de Beauvoir

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” Simone de Beauvoir

“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.” Simone de Beauvoir

“I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.” David Bowie

“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.” David Bowie

“You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.” Charles Stanley

“I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.” Charles Stanley

“Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.” Angelina Jolie

“Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.” Paris Hilton

“No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.” Paris Hilton

“Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.” Jonathan Swift

“I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.” Elizabeth Taylor

“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” Oprah Winfrey

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” Virginia Woolf

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” Virginia Woolf

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Virginia Woolf

“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.” Virginia Woolf

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.” Virginia Woolf

“There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.” Virginia Woolf

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” Virginia Woolf

“Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?” Virginia Woolf

“Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” Virginia Woolf

“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.” Walt Whitman

“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.” John Adams