top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Woman quotes
"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
Author Name
Personal Development
"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Dorothy Allison
"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."
Love
"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
Strength
"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
Woman
"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
World
"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels."
Romantic
"Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning."
Truth
"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
Change
"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."
Categories
bottom of page