W Quotes
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“Women are objectified in our culture. And more and more, it takes a great deal of confidence, especially as a woman, to break the mold. You know, you're afraid that you're going to covered in a magazine as a "fashion don't." That's why you see all these girls on the red carpet looking the same.”
“Women are objects, commodities, some deemed more expensive than others. But it is only by asserting one's humanness every time, in all situations, that one becomes someone as opposed to something. That, after all is the core of our struggle.”
Source: Woman Hating
“Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.”
“Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.”
“Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.”
“Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.”
“Women are often only in the media to be victimised or objectified”
“Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.”
“Women are often told to have to be a certain way, to speak a certain way. The "norm" has been defined for many, many years, so it is very scary, especially for girls around the world who don't have the freedom and the opportunity to have a voice.”
“Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.”
Source: The Painted Veil
“Women are on a rise and a great woman will lead this country and make a real change one day.”
“Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.”
“Women are one and all a set of vultures.”
“Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.”
“Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.”
“Women are one of the most important segments of the adventure travel industry. Women make the vast majority of travel decisions in families - not only the destinations, but the activities. They are the predominant adventure travel planners.”
“Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women are, and until women are as active outside the home as men are, we won't have democratic families, and therefore we won't have democracy, and we will continue this hierarchical notion of life.”
“Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.”
“Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.”
“Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.”
“Women are our mothers, daughters, and sisters; women are our world.”
“Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.”
“Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.”
Source: For Love Alone
“Women are overloaded. We are stretched. Across the board. With or without children, we are not over the hill of feminism - we are barely getting started.”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.”
“Women are part of the constitution.”
“Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?”
“Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.”
Source: Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership
“Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.”
“Women are phenomenal but sometimes they forget that because they allow themselves to be consumed by the negativity from the wrong men!”
Source: Why Are Women So Stupid???
“Women are pillars. The only thing that changes is what or whom they hold up.”
Source: The Devil Takes You Home
“Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.”
“Women are pleasured treasures.”
“Women are poetry,
Men are philosophy.
Entire school of thought,
finds a voice undistraught,
in one little poetry.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Women are powerful and dangerous.”
“Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time where it gets to us very quickly and very young. So how do you maintain in a child that sense of unique identity before they get thrown all that is projected on them?”
“Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.”
“Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.”
“Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.”
“women are proto-psychopaths”
“Women are proverbially credulous.”
“Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.”
“Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.”
“women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men. ... But the by-product of such anonymity may be immortality, for women are also less likely to find themselves written up on the obituary page.”
“Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.”
“Women are radiant when cherished by the one they love. If ur wife is admired by others, kudos u're a caring husband.”
“Women are raising children, picking up socks, and making sure you feel like a man by supporting you when you need it and looking sexy (but not trying too hard, because that would be pathetic). We're being independent and bad bitches while wearing fucking lipstick and heels so as not to offend your delicate aesthetic sensibility, yet even just the word "feminist" pisses you off. How dare we.”
Source: Sex Object: A Memoir
“Women are raped and coerced into sex.”
“Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child. Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days.”