Quotes About Women

No girl I knew, in other words, had babies, but more than a few had had abortions. I'd attended two abortions before my own. I'd been invited along to do the driving, and hold the hands, and sit afterward in the bars and fetch the drinks. The boyfriends, though informed of our activities, were never present. Abortions are women's work, I guess.

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.

All German women are beautiful.

The new government decided the best way to rectify this was to outlaw abortion and prohibit the sale or display of contraceptives in the Weimar constitution of 1919. During a time of unimaginable scarcity and fear, women were forced into motherhood. They were forced to make do, and the pressure to repopulate the nation, to birth and raise a new generation of mothers and soldiers, was enormous. It was the most important thing a woman could possibly do: Be the Good Mother.

I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.

For the first time in the kingdom's history, all the contenders for the crown that Edward was about to relinquish were female.

and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.

Only a very few people leave traces in history, or even bequeath family documents to their descendants. Most have no money to memorialise themselves, and lack even a gravestone to mark their existence. Women's lives, in particular, remain largely unrecorded. But even so, did they not shape the future?

My novel is sponsored by Tampax. It's the story of three generations of women and spans three decades. That's a lot of menstruation. So every time a character rides the cotton pogo stick—Voilà! Tampax.

[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

even women who had run the colonias infantiles for refugee children.

to "have ideas" (tener ideas), thinking for oneself being considered doubly reprehensible in women.

the desire first to humiliate and then to eradicate those women who had demonstrated any kind of autonomy, but especially those who had actively participated in the military defence of the Republic (the milicianas).

Among the military rebels and all their immediate supporters there was an especially pathological fear and loathing of emancipated women

red" women had forfeited their right to nourish their young,

Francoist military psychiatrists carried out psychological tests on both captured International Brigade prisoners and Republican women prisoners.

in rebel territory, the onslaught against "red" women was integrally linked to the reimposition of traditionalist forms of social order

he never crossed any lines. He was a subtle and old-fashioned sexist; he didn't know how to take women seriously but they continued to delight him. And

Personal religious experience is not necessarily the same as organized religious doctrine. My concern is that as a contemporary women we have lost the capacity to make this distinction.

I we open up sport to women, it sends a message that wanting leisure time is not being selfish or unreasonable.

Women need time and space to play - particularly when we work so hard

The women of Juarez, and women across the world, do not want to have to take revenge, any more than Procne and Philomela did. What they want is to be able to rely on the modern gods -- the police, the courts, and the media -- for justice.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.