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Woman Quotes
"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."
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"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome."
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"Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting."
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"To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision."
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"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."
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"And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean."
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"A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution."
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"The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women."
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"The women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit."
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"A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot."
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"It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth."
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"Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up."
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"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic."
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"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."
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"Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip."
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"Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions."
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"If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty."
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"I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'"
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"The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write."
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"The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing."
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"Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress."
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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"We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out."
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"The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale."
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"A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value."
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