Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams. 1.55K
As women, we’re nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That’s a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list. 3.1K
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? 698
Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we’re not open then there’s no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it’s going to happen. 626
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. 610
The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love. 928
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can’t help it – can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. 1.79K
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. 2.31K
Feminism’s agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. 2.31K
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. 2.12K
To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness. 754
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. 668
It’s not common for a woman on television, especially if she’s the mom of the family, to be funny. She’s usually a straight man or foil. 738
Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it’s like you don’t ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it’s kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are. 691
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women – 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data – is practically absurd and morally indefensible. 2.04K
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. 2.36K
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concretize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. 775
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure. 728
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. 653
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I’ve always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor. 2.48K
