Quotes About Individuality

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bi...; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.