Women Quotes

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

For men have marble, women waxen, minds, And therefore are they form’d as marble will; The weak oppress’d, the impression of strange kinds Is form’d in them by force, by fraud, or skill: Then call them not the authors of their ill, No more than wax shall be accounted evil Wherein is stamp’d the semblance of a devil.

Every woman knows all about everything.

And the thing is, in the book, Mariko does fight, and that’s also based on our history – women of the samurai class got training so that they could protect themselves when needed.

And oftentimes when you hear Japanese women, you think, ‘Oh, they’re obedient, they’re sexy or they can do just action somehow.’ And that’s not who we are – we’re so much more complex. And even if we appear obedient, it’s because society has made us that way and there’s so much that’s bottled inside.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

[Women] are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us [men] there’s nothing. There’s only the two together creating children, creating society.