Quotes About Women

How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them?

Elles [Rosa Luxembourg, Marie Curie] démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'infériorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les a vouées à l'infériorité.

Women's entire history has been written by men.

Women – the Parcae and Moirai – weave human destiny; but they also cut the threads. In most folk representations, Death is woman and women mourn the dead because death is their work.fn6 Thus, Mother Earth has a face of darkness: she is chaos, where everything comes from and must return to one day; she is Nothingness.

Scriassine studied me in turn. You're not so dumb, you know. Generally I dislike intelligent women, maybe because they're not intelligent enough. They always want to prove to themselves, and to everyone else, how terribly smart they are. So all they do is talk and never understand anything. What struck me the first time I saw you was that way you have of keeping quiet.

it is not women's inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority

If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.

Simonides of Amorgos says, "Women are the greatest evil God ever created: if they sometimes seem useful, they soon change into trouble for their masters." For Hipponax: "There are but two days in life when your wife brings you joy: her wedding day and her funeral.

Mais même au XIX siècle elles étaient souvent obligées de se cacher; elles n'avaient pas même 'une chambre à elles', c'est-à-dire qu'elles ne jouissaient pas de cette indépendance matérielle qui est une des conditions nécessaires de la liberté intérieure.

Todas las mujeres se creen diferentes; todas piensan que ciertas cosas no pueden sucederles, y todas ellas se equivocan.

toda a história das mulheres foi feita pelos homens. (...) As mulheres que realizaram obras comparáveis às dos homens (...) demonstram brilhantemente que não foi a inferioridade feminina que determinou a sua insignificância histórica: foi, antes, a sua insignificância histórica que as votou à inferioridade.

Não sou o tipo de mulher a quem se mente. Orgulho imbecil. Todas as mulheres se julgam diferentes; todas pensam que certas coisas lhes não podem acontecer e todas elas se enganam.

As virgens que o homem não dominou, as mulheres velhas que escaparam ao seu poder, são mais facilmente do que as outras encaradas como feiticeiras.

How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work - was refused them?

Today, the majority of workers are exploited. Moreover, social structures have not been deeply modified by the changes in women's condition. This world has always belonged to men and still retains the form they have imprinted on it.

Aristotle said. "We should regard women's nature as suffering from natural defectiveness." And Saint Thomas in his turn decreed that woman was an "incomplete man," an "incidental" being.

C'est seulement depuis que les femmes commencent à se sentir chez elles sur cette terre qu'on a vu apparaître une Rosa Luxembourg, une Mme. Curie. Elles démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'inferiorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les à vouées à l'inferiorité.

No one is more arrogant, more aggressive or more disdainful towards women, than a man who is fearful for his masculinity.

Las mujeres no son solidarias como sexo: ante todo están ligadas a su clase; los intereses de las burguesas y los de las mujeres proletarias no coinciden.

Women is the negative, to such a point that any determination is imputed to her as a limitation, without reciprocity.

All women think they are different; they all think there are some things that will never happen to them; and they are all wrong.

In 1949 Beauvoir could see that women would be able to shed their old skins and cut their own clothes, only 'if there is a collective change' (see here).

Women] have no history, religion of their own, and they are not like the proletarian solidarity work and interests (…) They live dispersed among men, attached by housing, labor, economic, social condition in some men – fathers or husbands – more closely than other women

Monotonie du mal : rien de nouveau, tout y est équivalent. Rien de réel, tout y est imaginaire. C'est à cause de cette monotonie que la quantité joue un si grand rôle. Beaucoup de femmes (don Juan) ou d'hommes (Célimène), etc. Condamné à la fausse infinité. C'est là l'enfer même.