Quotes about Women
...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.
— Kent Hughes
Men, as fathers you have such power! You will have this terrible power till you die, like it or not — in your attitude toward authority, in your attitude toward women, in your regard for God and the Church. What terrifying responsibilities! This is truly the power of life and death.
— Kent Hughes
I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.
— Marianne Williamson
I've been blessed with so many wonderful women friends throughout my life.
— Deborah Raney
A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The story of the Syro-Phoenician makes women's contribution to one of the most crucial traditions in early Christian beginnings historically available. Through such an analysis, the Syro-Phoenician can become visible again as one of the apostolic foremothers of Gentile Christians. By moving her into the center of the debate about the mission to the Gentiles, the historical centrality of Paul in this debate becomes relativized.
— Walter Brueggemann
The theological denigration of women was a major revision of the assumptions that had informed the Christian movement from the gospels forward. Jesus himself modeled an egalitarian respect toward women: In Christ, 'there is neither male nor female.
— James Carroll
What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.
— Dorothy Sayers
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
— Stephen Hawking
I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.
— Gloria Steinem
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
— Herbert Hoover