Quotes about Women
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
I love supporting female-owned companies and women who are awesome.
- Emily Weiss
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
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
- Alice Hoffman
Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.
- Barack Obama
There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.
- Carolyn Custis James
According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.
- Conan O'Brien