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Quotes About Women

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.
~ Edward Said
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
~ Alice Paul
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
~ Lillian Wald
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting
~ Dorian Yates
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.
~ Mutabaruka
A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
~ Dolores Huerta
Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.
~ Coretta Scott King
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
~ Mary Church Terrell
There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
~ Victoria Woodhull
The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
~ Christian Louboutin
I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.
~ John Knox
We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.
~ Jackson Katz
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
~ Erin Pizzey
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
~ Martin Luther
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
~ Grace Kelly
Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.
~ Cathy Guisewite
I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
~ Nellie L. McClung
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
~ Stephen Gaskin
Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.
~ Mae West