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Quotes About Perspective

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
~ Bill Mollison
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
~ Barbara Jordan
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
~ Dorothy Parker
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
~ Charlotte Bunch
I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
~ Johnny Depp
Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.
~ John Smith
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
~ Albert Einstein
If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
~ Erma Bombeck
Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.
~ Ava Gardner
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.
~ Camille Paglia
I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
~ Marlene Dietrich
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.
~ Jane Campion
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.
~ Jimmy Page
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.
~ Phyllis McGinley
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
~ Antonia Fraser
I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.
~ John Marston
Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.
~ Ita Buttrose
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
~ Carolina Herrera
Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
~ Carolyn See
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
~ Dorothy Fuldheim
Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.
~ Tamar Myers
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.
~ Amiri Baraka
Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
~ Mark Wahlberg