I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish.
We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.
Even when I was a child, my best friend was a 92-year-old woman.
You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'
I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.
I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.
I love color and I love to dress like a woman.
For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
