Quotes About Change

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.

Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

The world will be changed by western women.