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When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

when women progress, all of society benefits.

When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!

When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.

When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

When you have kids, you just can't believe your heart could love something so much. My kids inspire me every day and I think I'm a better singer now because they have given me a greater emotional well to draw from.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social status, the position of contemporary women has not changed that radically. Much of our success still depends on our attunement to "male culture," our ability to please men, and our readiness to conform to the masculine values of our institutions.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

Why don't more women attain enlightenment?

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

Why must women torment me so?

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

Without being conscious of it, she looks for a situation in which she can give up her façade of self-sufficiency and ease back into that warm, cradled state reminiscent of childhood that's so seductive to a woman - a home.

Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.

With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are necessary for women to free themselves and become all that they are capable of being.

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.