Women Quotes - Page 82

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what we do and what we expect of each other... The potential exists for societies where men and women do not have to conform to unwanted stereotypes.

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

Life was meant to be lived.

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.

seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.