Quotes About Women

An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could remain with her husband when he joined the Confederate Army. Amy continued to fight after he was killed, and she was wounded herself and taken prisoner.

The Northern women who worked for abolition were generally not free of racial prejudice - many female abolition societies refused to allow black members.

It was a raw country, and the first generations of colonial women did things that their granddaughters would have found unthinkable.

The department stores also imposed a new, very American kind of democracy, in which everyone was equal as long as they had the money to pay. (Marshall Field instructed his clerks to call all customers "ladies," no matter what their dress or manners.) Even poor women enjoyed the stores' big, carefully decorated windows, with displays that changed regularly.

It's possible that a connection existed between the increasing independence of many women and the surgical assault on them. But it's even more likely that doctors started removing women's sexual organs simply because the arrival of anesthetics had made it safe to do so. Doctors had always regarded female reproductive organs as the source of all women's medical problems.

It's hard to imagine how women made the leap into professions for which they had no role models, no invitation, and very little encouragement.

Looking back, it's easy to see the clothes as a metaphor for everything else that happened to women in postwar America.

There were actually all sorts of New Women, but they shared an independent competence that some found rather terrifying.

Forty percent of the new dental school graduates were women, although as late as 1970 the dean of the University of Texas dental school had insisted on admitting no more than two women in every class of a hundred because "girls aren't strong enough to pull teeth.

Quieres saber por qué me sentí mal en realidad? En Nueva York el aborto no es ningún tabú, forma parte de la cultura, y aun así la ley del aborto no se aprobó hasta que fue demasiado tarde para cientos de chicas que los necesitaban al mismo tiempo que yo. ¿No podían haberla aprobado con carácter retroactivo y habernos enviado una disculpa escrita?

It was disagreeable duty at best, taking men from their fields, women from the hearth, and children from play to push them at gunpoint to relocation centers,

It's important to understand that, back in the mid-sixties, there were few, if any, New York bars where single women felt comfortable—bars in New York were mainly beer joints for men. And so, all of those stewardesses and models back then simply partied at, well, house parties. Stillman was about to change all that when he opened a bar called TGI Fridays, which welcomed both men and women, thus creating the first singles' bar—one that felt like a cocktail party.

Confederate soldiers were consistently brave, white Southern women were unquestioningly loyal, and "the cause" was indisputably noble.

He met a number of interesting young women, one of whom invited him back to her flat and showed him a particular "erotic exercise

the decision to approach Life with reverence often requires courage, not only of men, but also of women who have adopted these values. The decision to become a reverent person is essentially the decision to become a spiritual person.

These little women are very important, and those that appear to be the humblest, often assume great authority in their homes.

I encourage women to ask other women for help when they need it, and it's likewise safer to accept an offer from a woman than from a man. (Unfortunately, women rarely make such offers to other women, and I wish more would.) I

Restraining orders (often called TRO's) have long been homework assignments police give women to prove they're really committed to getting away from their pursuers.

Men of all ages and in all parts of the world are more violent than women. For this reason, the language in this book is mostly gender-specific to men. When it comes to violence, women can proudly relinquish recognition in the language, because here at least, politically correct would be statistically incorrect.

Ordinary citizens can encounter violence at their jobs to the point that homicide is now the leading cause of death for women in the workplace.

One day he decided he was more dependent on the kindness of women than he liked so he went off to hunt wild beasts with his bare hands. But all he found was a stray dog & a couple of old pigeons & it was cold & he missed the sound of soft voices, so finally he came back & never worried about it again. —Iron John

Wars are fought for the gain of the few, over power, women, and commodities. Fortunate are women and those few, that men are such fools.

The sudden screaming of women woke Tuco, who might have gone unnoticed had he lain quietly beneath the stone lip of the well.

Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world…