Women Quotes - Page 55

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away.

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Intelligent women always marry fools

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.

Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.