Quotes About Women

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Every time I read where some woman gave a short talk I wonder how she stopped.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

The glorification of the 'woman's role, then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

No woman answereth an important question in less than eleven score words.

Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Now what I love in women is, they won't or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it so well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, feminine ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.