top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am my own woman."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society."
Beauty
"To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality."
Woman
"Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria."
People
"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."
Woman
"Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight."
Society
"Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints."
Woman
"'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact."
Age
bottom of page