Quotes About Women

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

An alien principle took charge when men began administering nature. When priestesses whose moon-based calendar foretold the cycles with minute precision gave way to priests in women's robes who reckoned by the sun, & left each year awry with one fourth of a useless day.

Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth.

the concept of Mary Poppins is even stronger, implying a secure childhood and an answer to women's perennial problem: how to balance their lives between their needs and their family's demands.

Baiser permet aux hommes de se protéger contre leur désir d'être des femmes.

What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.

O yüzden çözüm kad?nlar? özgürleÅŸtirecek olan para-iÅŸ sisteminin tamamen ortadan kald?r?lmas?d?r; erkeklerle iktisadi eÅŸitlik saÄŸlanmas? deÄŸil.

Women are thus being allowed to enter the professions at precisely the time when these professions are being devalued and high-flying men are going elsewhere

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

The assumptions are evident: nature is unproductive; organic agriculture based on nature's cycles of renewability spells poverty; women and tribal and peasant societies embedded in nature are similarly unproductive, not because it has been demonstrated that in cooperation they produce less goods and services for needs, but because it is assumed that 'production' takes place only when mediated by technologies for commodity production, even when such technologies destroy

Modern science, as we have noted earlier, has a world-view that both supports and is supported by the socio-political-economic system of western capitalist patriarchy which dominates and exploits nature, women, and the poor.

Monocultures and monopolies symbolize patriarchal agriculture. The war mentality underlying military-industrial agriculture is evident from the names given to the herbicides destroying the economic basis of the survival of the poorest women in the rural areas of the Third World. Roundup, Machete, and Lasso from Monsanto. Pentagon, Prowl, Scepter, Squadron, Cadre, and Avenge from American Home Products, which has merged with Monsanto. The language is of war, not sustainability.

Then, as now, the issue is control. Then, as now, the prejudice of the super rich, and their fear of women, the poor, the migrant, and the coloured, shapes what they call 'science', as the ultimate objective truth, when in reality it is the articulation of subjective prejudice, of fear of the other, of the uncontrollable urge to dominate.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men's mentality – in their opinion about femininity – women's equality may not be possible.

Where do such numbers come from? I'll tell you where they don't come from: They don't come from the body-weight tables and formulas created by health experts. These tables and formulas, which include height-weight charts used by life insurance companies and body-mass index guidelines used widely by doctors, are far too general to help individual men and women determine an ideal body weight.

Daphne tried to convey to him that the likelihood of degrees for women at Oxford was a matter for satisfaction, perhaps, but hardly for excitement or ratification. Women's accomplishments in the University had long been equal, if not superior, to men's; degrees were not a privilege, they were simply what women deserved - their due, their right. She became very animated as she argued on this topic.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

Y es que Don Juan no sólo seduce, goza y desdeña en serie, con una prisa humillante, a sus elegidas; lo hace convencido de la justicia sensual de tale hazañas, que dará a muchas mujeres la posibilidad de satisfacer un placer deseado en lo más hondo. Para él, únicamente la pasión es hermosa y estimulante; la tranquilidad del amor, por el contrario, atonta.

I groaned inwardly, hating how men blamed their own lusts on women's "magic.

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.