Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
— Xavier Dolan
It's important to push the agenda of hiring women directors.
— Wyck Godfrey
In much the same way Ip Man embodied the struggles of the Chinese people, I wanted Gong Er to represent the changing role of women.
— Wong Kar-wai
I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I go to events and when I walk in my own community. My sisters, Ingred, my sister Marsha, and my sister Nielock. All cofounders of the Indigenous Women's Network with me. All long time women activists in the native community.
— Winona LaDuke
Women, men, and children have fundamental rights to humanitarian assistance and protection. Yet far too many states block aid and attack their own citizens, and too many others - including some of the world's wealthiest countries - turn their back on those fleeing conflict and violence.
— Winnie Byanyima
My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance.
Without women's equal access to positions of decision-making power and a clear process to get there, gender equality, global security, and peace will never be realized.
When we talk about LGBT characters on TV we're talking about the entire rainbow, and that includes trans people, and that includes non-binary people, people of color, women, differently-abled people. There is so much opportunity for storytelling there, and I hope that we continue to see more of that.
— Wilson Cruz
The 'science' behind hormone replacement therapy has put women on a medically engineered, press-fueled, big pharma funded roller coaster ride.
— Willow Bay
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
— William Wycherley
Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.
— William T. Vollmann
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
— William Shakespeare
Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.
— William Reddington Hewlett
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
My sister was brilliant: she was in the 25 top math students in the country. When she finished college, I said, 'Spend a couple of months here in Europe. You'll get another take on life.' She never came - married some schmuck who made clothes for fat women on Seventh Avenue.
— William Klein
There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.
— William H. Macy
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
— William Cobbett
I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
Women deal with real issues with policing that don't really get talked about.
— Wyatt Cenac
In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated.
— Winona Ryder
I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.
— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty.
GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries alike.
The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.
I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.
— Wilma Rudolph
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
So much of the destruction on Earth has been wrought by men. Women are the ones who give life and try to pick up the pieces... What a great gender they are.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
— William P. Leahy
The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.
— William Levy
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.
— William Hurt
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
— William Golding
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
— William Butler Yeats
I would love to design my own shoe line. Women suffer too much in heels. I want to design a line of sexy platform heels that don't hurt.
— Wynter Gordon
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
— Woodrow Wilson
I'm so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It's so bizarre to me... I do have those qualities, and I just don't think there's anything wrong with them.
To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other.
Instead of presiding over an economic system that panders to big business and a wealthy elite, a more human economy must be established which meets the needs of African women and young people.
When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
— Wilson Mizner
For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of feminine grace that women themselves may not be able to see.
Men's vows are women's traitors!
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
— William Moulton Marston
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
— William Law
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
— William Hazlitt
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
— William Feather
