WOMEN QUOTES III
quotations about women
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 It's not actually super hard to give up ignorant, outdated phrases like these, but the meanings behind them tend to stick if you adopt sayings like these at all.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
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGER
Ways of Seeing
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
I seen a pretty woman in a red dress ... And then I seen her take it off. What else is there?
WILLIAM GAY
Provinces of Night
A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A Streetcar Named Desire
What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
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
Somewhere along the lines, women let someone tell us that we can't have it all. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Really? Well then what is the point of serving me the cake if I can't eat it as well?
TAMARA ANGELA GRANT
"Women Are Necessary...", Huffington Post, March 9, 2017
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
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
attributed, Woman's Day, August 2011
A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.
IRVING BERLIN
"A Pretty Girl is like a Melody"
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Love for Love
Most women desire someone who makes them laugh and also feel safe, so basically a clown ninja.
ANONYMOUS
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
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
All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Glass Menagerie
Women men want to sleep with always win when men are making the decisions.
RITA RUDNER
Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel
With women the heart argues, not the mind.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Merope