Women Quotes
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
Quote by -Tamara Mellon
"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."
Quote by -Carl Sandburg
"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."
Quote by -Carl Sandburg
"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."
Quote by -Carl Sandburg
"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."
Quote by -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them."
Quote by -Alec Baldwin
"I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman."
Quote by -Aleister Crowley
"We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women."
Quote by -Alexander McCall Smith
"There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out."
Quote by -Alexander McCall Smith
"If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out," she said. "Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is- a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers."
Quote by -Logan Pearsall Smith
"Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?"
Quote by -Alexander McCall Smith
"Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated."
Quote by -Alexander Dumas
"Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless"."
Quote by -Alice Thomas Ellis
"Men love women, women love children; children love hamsters– it's quite hopeless."
Quote by -Alice Thomas Ellis
"Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands"
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value - it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. In the feminine mystique, there is no other way for a woman to dream of creation or of the future. There is no other way she can even dream about herself, except as her children's mother, her husband's wife."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and brutal man-eating, bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, crewcut Prussian sadistic, napalm all the children in Vietnam, bang-bang you're dead, image of masculinity, the image of all powerful masculine superiority that is absolute."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'"
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?"
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability."
Quote by -Betty Friedan
"I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy."
Quote by -Betty Friedan