I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?”
Source: At Large
“If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.”
“If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.”
Source: Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
“If women could remind ourselves we make up 51 percent of the population and give birth to the remaining, imagine the power in our collective voice!”
“If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.”
“If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.”
“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
“If women die in childbed, that does no harm. It is what they were made for.”
“If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them.”
“If women don't lead, nobody else is going to, because nobody else feels as passionately as we do about injustices. We feel passionate about injustices to women and girls, and not in exclusion to injustices elsewhere.”
“If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor.”
“If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.”
“If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.”
“If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.”
“If women governed the entire world, it is my theory that soon we would have world peace and healing of the entire planet....”
Source: Random Molecular Mirroring
“If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.”
“If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?”
Source: Tehanu
“If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.”
“If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“If women have become innocent victims, if women running around today are unable to protect themselves, if the picture that we're painting, if the caricature we are creating is of women that are helpless waifs who are at risk of predator men throughout the busy day, then we have to somehow involve Hillary Clinton in that recipe in truthful and honest ways. That, when it came to defending and protecting women who alleged that they had been abused or even raped by her husband, those women were nothing but scum who had to be dispatched and just swept out of the way.”
“If women have confidence in themselves, they will have confidence in other women.”
“If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.”
“If women only knew the extent of their power!”
“If women patronize the wheel the number of buyers will be twice as large. If women ride they must, when riding, dress more rationally than they have been wont to do. If they do this many prejudices as to what they may be allowed to wear will melt away. Reason will gain upon precedent and ere long the comfortable, sensible, and artistic wardrobe of the rider will make the conventional style of woman's dress absurd to the eye and unenduring to the understanding. A reform often advances most rapidly by indirection. An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory; and the graceful and becoming costume of woman on the bicycle will convince the world that has brushed aside the theories, no matter how well constructed, and the arguments, no matter how logical, of dress-reformers.”
Source: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th Century Woman
“If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.”
“If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.”
“If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.”
“If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.”
“If women really choose prostitution, why is it mostly marginalized and disadvantaged women who do? If we want to discuss the issue of choice, let’s look at who is doing the actual choosing in the context of prostitution. Surely the issue is not why women allegedly choose to be in prostitution, but why men choose to buy the bodies of millions of women and children worldwide and call it sex.
Philosophically, the response to the choice debate is ‘not’ to deny that women are capable of choosing within contexts of powerlessness, but to question how much real value, worth, and power these so-called choices confer.
Politically, the question becomes, should the state sanction the sex industry based on the claim that some women choose prostitution when most women’s choice is actually 'compliance’ to the only options available?
When governments idealize women’s alleged choice to be in prostitution by legalizing, decriminalizing, or regulating the sex industry, they endorse a new range of 'conformity’ for women.
Increasingly, what is defended as a choice is not a triumph over oppression but another name for it.”
Source: Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade
“If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.”
“If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?”
“If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.”
“If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.”
“If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted.”
“If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when women control the means of production and reproduction. From this point of view, it is simply not in women's interest to support patriarchy or even a fabled "equality" with men. That women do so is more a sign of powerlessness than of any biologically based "superior" wisdom.”
Source: Women & madness
“If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.”
“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.”
“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?”
Source: the female eunuch
“If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?”
“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
“If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.”
“If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.”
“If women were humbler, men would be honester.”
“If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon”
“If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.”
“If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.”
“If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.”
Source: A Voice from the South
“If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?”