WOMEN QUOTES III

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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
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The Glass Menagerie


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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election

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Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images, lies in contemplation of herself.

PAULINE RÉAGE

introduction, The Image

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Sadly, "respecting" women just because they fill a narrow role misogyny defines as "respectable" is actually the opposite of respecting women. People who can't or won't respect women simply because women are human beings don't respect women at all.

JULIA O'DONNELL

"Women are so much more than just sisters, mothers, wives", The Badger Herald, March 14, 2017


Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

JOHN GRAY

Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus

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A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.

IRVING BERLIN

"A Pretty Girl is like a Melody"

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I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Every world has faults
This one has too many
Unattainable Female Objects.

DAVID JONATHAN NEWMAN

"U.F.O.", The Light Looks Another Way

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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.

WILLIAM CONGREVE

Love for Love

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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

SAMUEL SMILES

Character

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I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.

KYRA SEDGWICK

Newsweek, October 15, 2007

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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

JOHN STEINBECK

East of Eden

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Women could be trying at times, but they often brought warmth and pleasure to a man's fire.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Clan of the Cave Bear

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It's the silliest lie a sensible man like you ever believed, to say a woman makes a house comfortable. It's a story got up, because the women are there, and something must be found for 'em to do. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha' been left to the men.... I tell you, a woman 'ull bake you a pie every week of her life, and never come to see that the hotter th' oven the shorter the time.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.

EDNA FERBER

"Sun Dried"

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It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

ANITA BROOKNER

A Friend from England

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Raising sons who respect women is something that Millennial feminists do by being mindful of their vocabulary. There's no talk of opening that jar of pickles "like a man" or "throwing like a girl." It's not actually super hard to give up ignorant, outdated phrases like these, but the meanings behind them tend to stick if you adopt sayings like these at all. I don't think I've ever heard my husband insinuate that he is stronger than me simply because he's a man in front of our son or otherwise. I guess he just knows better.

CHRISSY BOBIC

"10 Ways Millennial Feminists Are Raising Sons Who Respect Women", Romper, February 9, 2016


Most women are not so young as they are painted.

MAX BEERBOHM

A Defence of Cosmetics

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I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

FRANK SINATRA

attributed, The Way You Wear Your Hat

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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary

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