Quotes About Women

You are going to be judged harshly because success in women is not easily forgiven.

A muchas hijas nos ha tocado vivir la vida que nuestras madres no pudieron vivir.

La violencia contra las mujeres es universal y tan antigua como la civilización misma. Cuando se habla de derechos humanos, en la práctica se habla de derechos de los hombres. Si un hombre es golpeado y privado de libertad, es tortura. Si lo mismo soporta una mujer se llama violencia doméstica

They are more interesting than most men, but that does not affect the reality: they live in an unyielding patriarchy. To begin with, a woman's work or intellect isn't respected; we must work twice as hard as any man to earn half the recognition

We have to consider violence against women for what it really is: the greatest crisis that faces humanity.

No, literature was definitely not a reasonable career path in a country like Chile where intellectual scorn for women was absolute.

There's no feminism without economic independence.

Entonces supe que el coronel... y otros como él tienen sus días contados, porque no han podido destruir el espíritu de esas mujeres.

but even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.

The tradition of industrious women is fundamental in my country, where sloth is a male privilege. It is forgivable in men, just as alcoholism is tolerated among them, because it is assumed that these are unavoidable biological characteristics: if you're born that way, you're born that way. . . . That isn't true of women, you understand.

All the women I know write, paint, sculpt, or do crafts in their leisure time—which is very scarce. Art has replaced knitting.

Enough of euphemisms. Enough of partial solutions. Profound changes are needed in society and it's us, women, who can impose them. Remember that no one gives us anything. We have to seize what we want. We need to create global awareness and get organized. Now, more than ever before, this is possible because we have information, communication, and the ability to mobilize.

This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved. In the next few pages, I will try to explain what this entails.

I thought liberation had to do with going out into the world and assuming male duties, not with delegating part of my load. The result was a terrible fatigue, as witnessed today by the millions of women of my generation who question feminist movements.

Sociologists say that forty percent of Chileans suffer from depression, especially women, who have to put up with the men. You must remember, too, that our country goes through major disasters, and that there are many poor, so it seems rude to mention one's own good fortune.

Violence against women is universal and as old as civilization. When talking about human right, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.

Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat us & destroy us. But remember that bold women are like cockroaches: step on one & others come running from the corners.

In brief, I am in a splendid moment of my destiny. This is good news for women in general: Life gets easier once we get through menopause and are done with raising kids, but only if we minimize our expectations, give up resentment, and relax in the knowledge that no one, except those closest to us, gives a damn about who we are or what we do. Stop pretending, faking it, lamenting, and flagellating ourselves about silly stuff. We have to love ourselves a lot and love others without calculating

because in essence they were sisters—as, finally, most women are.

We have something weird in our brains, a sort of tumor that propels us toward love. We can't live without it. Out of love we put up with children and men. Our self-denial is a form of servitude. Have you noticed that individualism and selfishness are considered positive traits in men and defects in women? We

Kita vertus, moterys ateina ? pasaul? su genetiškai nulemtu gyvenimo tikslu, tad joms nereikia jo išsikovoti per audras ir nuotykius.

I told her she had run an enormous risk rescuing me, and she smiled. It was then I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.

Esto es más o menos lo que las mujeres queremos: seguridad, ser valoradas, vivir en paz

More than forty years ago Bella Abzug, the famous activist and congresswoman from New York, summarized the above in one sentence: "In the twenty-first century women will change the nature of power instead of power changing the nature of women." My