Quotes About Expression

I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.

Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

I think all women want to feel sexy and confident yet comfortable at the same time in what they wear.

Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

I have always admired the way women put outfits together.

I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.