Women Quotes - Page 71

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.

All women are ambitious naturallie

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Love between a man and woman is war.

But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

My hope as an actress is knowing that I'm someone who is more privileged - I'm biracial and lighter-skinned - and I hope it can open up the door for more women of color, especially darker-skinned black women. I hope everyone hops on the bandwagon and decides to start putting women of color in movies that aren't just about race.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.