Ann Romney Quotes

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have to play a different game than men play, and you have to be a lot cleverer.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

Of all the social revolutions now abroad in the world, that of the American women is the least dynamic, the least predictable, the most aimless and divided – in short the most feminine…. As a class, they are today themselves the greatest obstacle to their own advancement.... They are simply ridiculous.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.