Quotes About Women

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake

I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.

For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.

Dr Freud has many insightful conclusions about the human mind," I continued bitterly, "but when it comes to women, he might do better investigating the male sex's preoccupation with cigars.

Women (don't) follow logic's rules when they (commit) adultery.

There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

It is important to continue working toward creating the archetype of the self-rescuing princess, empowering girls through depictions of women in STEM.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. I want women to know that it's ok. That you can be whatever size you are and be beautiful inside and out.

Women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.

Viver de acordo com os princípios bíblicos hoje requer que as mulheres sejam ousadas o suficiente para permanecer firmes contra filosofias e fortalezas que buscam destruir a Palavra de Deus e sua autoridade.

New communication technologies have intensified and expanded misogyny so that smart phones have become political weapons, instruments of rape culture propaganda, in the hands of a population conditioned to secure their status within the group by practising hatred against girls and women.

Lack of empathy towards women has not only been recoded as "weak" or "politically correct" or a sign that one is sympathetic to the "F word" – something worse has occurred. Cruelty towards women has become the leitmotif of a reloaded misogyny that I have no hesitation in naming as fascist.

Masturbating to violence against women is an "essential, basic and natural drive" that is protected by the U.S. constitution. Sex is collapsed with sexual abuse; misogyny with free speech.

The dehumanisation of women is a central political technology in male supremacist cultures. Male supremacy is founded on the idea that women are biologically inferior to men. The girls and women who have been destroyed, driven into silence by madness, murdered or taken their own lives, are the true witnesses of male supremacy.

The contempt and loathing women are trained to feel for each other is the single most powerful strategy misogyny has in maintaining the oppression of women. Male supremacist culture replaces the natural loving solidarity between women with hate.

Ageism is the intimate colonisation of embodied time by the vampiric forces of patriarchal capitalism that instils an ideological timebomb in the female mind that ticks with the incessant and cruel warning that the passing of time is something for which women must be punished. Women, far more than men, are judged by how old they are and how old they look. The threatening ticking of male domination reduces women's social and economic worth to how "fresh" we appear.

The brutal limitations placed on women's emotions, the pseudo-psychiatric judgements and labelling and the herding of women into therapy and psychiatry, calls attention to the fact that women are still the second sex, a sex that is denied the full range of human emotions.