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To most women art is a form of scandal.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

Two women can't share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It's got to be one woman's kitchen.

Two women placed together makes cold weather.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival. You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual slavery was the condition. While suddenly the laws may change, to some extent, the conditioning doesn't go away that fast.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

Vodka is kind of a hobby.

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.