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Quotes About Expression

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.
~ Sonia Rykiel
For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.
~ Stella McCartney
I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.
~ Steven Shainberg
I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.
~ Stevie Nicks
I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality...
~ Stuart Rose
Men and women are from different zip codes. All guys understand - well this is just my opinion - you guys don't understand with words. You guys understand with actions.
~ Tahiry Jose
Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.
~ Tamora Pierce
I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I believe women do the best womenswear.
~ Tim Gunn
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.
~ Tina Fey
We need new cultural scripts. Women don't say what we want, and we don't say what we don't want. Unless we're reacting to a stranger, we generally aren't great at turning down someone's advance.
~ Vanessa Grigoriadis
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
~ Wilkie Collins
Women's weapons, water-drops.
~ William Shakespeare
No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.
~ Xinran
All women are lips, nothing but lips.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.
~ Yoko Ono
Books make dangerous devils out of women.
~ Yxta Maya Murray
I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.
~ John Keats
Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.
~ Nikki Rowe
You could tell she was a free spirit, a gypsy, just by looking at her. A smile like that doesn't come from a sad soul.
~ Nikki Rowe
I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man's and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.
~ Caroline George, The Vestige