Women's Experiences Quotes

I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I am. Those experiences are part of me. And it is part of our American journey that we have moved through so much of what used to hold people back because of gender, because of race.

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

I've always found women more interesting than men.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

Woman alone can ... speak effectively for woman, since none others can speak with authority, or from the depths of personal experience.

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself.

I think despite what we've seen on TV, people like seeing women and knowing about women's stories and their struggles and their truth. I think we've seen it in a lot of these shows - when there's a cast of all women, it does very well.

If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

I love stories about women.

I feel like women have so much more to offer: our essence, or flavor, and our part of the story.

[The Women's Room] was the first thing I read that explained a lot of the feelings I was having and a lot of the rage and the feeling uncomfortable in my body and knowing that I was feeling a certain way in the world, but I didn't have the language for it.

I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

Women deal with real issues with policing that don't really get talked about.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.