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Quotes About Women

Lugares impersonales para hombres y mujeres que ganan dinero y lo gastan con la mayor rapidez posible y que piensan que, de algun modo, eso tiene sentido.
~ John Katzenbach
that where a woman reigneth and papistes beare authoritie, that there must nedes Satan be president of the counsel, p.
~ John Knox
All men should be feminists. If men care about women's rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society.
~ John Legend
René Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women.
~ John Lloyd
Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.
~ John Malkovich
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
~ John Mason Brown
In the car, my father asked if I agreed with him that there was nothing worse, ethically, than betrayal, and that women were particularly prone to betraying people. Clytemnestra, for example, had betrayed Agamemnon when he had one foot out of the bath, fulfilling the prophecy that Agamemnon would die neither on land nor at sea.
~ Elif Batuman
You and I may go to Harvard, we may go to York of England, or go to Al Ahzar in Cairo and get degrees from all of these great seats of learning. But we will never be recognized until we recognize our women.
~ Elijah Muhammad
how to score the game: love, fifteen, thirty, forty, game. Six games wins a set, but you have to win by two games. Two sets wins a match for women, three for men.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
that's why women don't turn in their abusers, she thinks. It's humiliating—and the possibility of victim-shaming is very real.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
One trait all the women in his life have shared: They were "born on the Fourth of July." Independent.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
The cautious steps of women when something has happened came downstairs, sending vibrations up the spine of the house. The women came down with a kind of congested rush, like lava flowing as fast as it can.
~ elisabeth Bowen
but that he loved me and should to his last hour. He said that the freshness of youth had passed with him also, and that he had studied the world out of books and seen many women, yet had never loved one until he had seen me.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I have terrible taste in women. And Zanya, being an awful human being, was exactly the kind of terrible that was just to my taste.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion that has breathed upon this earth, has degraded women. There is not one that has not always made her subject to man.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women's self development is self-sacrifice.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
They had always been there, just hidden, sometimes, sadly, self-hating, but always there. The women, the church within the church, like Mary in the Sacristy, with their own secret rites. The thread wound back through a labyrinth, through thousands of years, into a ball, round and bright as the full moon.
~ Elizabeth Cunningham
The women never complained to the officers. It was not that they were afraid of them — quite the reverse, in fact. But their husbands cut up rough with them if they caused trouble. A tough trooper could manfully endure flogging, but wept tears of humiliation if he were lashed by an officer's tongue over something his wife had done.
~ Elizabeth Darrell