W Quotes
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“Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.”
“Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.”
“Women are regarded as upholding the traditions by conforming to them; men on the other hand uphold traditions by enforcing them—not upon themselves but upon women.”
Source: Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens
“Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.”
Source: More in Anger
“Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves”
Source: the female eunuch
“Women are responsible for creating their own roles”
“Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.”
“Women are rising slowly but steadily into full partnership with men all over the world. This is going to change everything. When the rich mind- style of women is available - with an emphasis on process, rather than on end-product, and on making things cohere, grow and interlink - - then it changes the way we educate, it changes the way we govern, it changes the way we worship.”
“Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.”
“Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.”
“Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.”
Source: The Marble Faun
“Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”
“Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.”
“Women are secretive about the bad things that happen in their lives and that’s what kills the society. They always want to be seen good, successful and happy.”
“Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.”
Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
“Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.”
“Women are sexy when they dance- incredibly sexy- but that wasn't what i reacted to, or how i reacted.”
“Women are shamed for this kind of curiosity, cursed for its devastating, world-ruining effects. Much more than men, I think, as I feel the cool metal of the doorknob in my fist. Where are the Bible stories and myths about men screwing everything up? Why are women always compared to cats, curious and relentless, happily wreaking havoc because they just. Want. To. Know the goddamned answer? Why all this, and never a thought to the fact that more men have torn up the world than women?”
Source: Femlandia
“Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“Women are skilled in disdain
what they most ardently desire.”
“Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.”
“Women are slaves to their beauty.”
Source: Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5
“Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.”
“Women are smarter than men because they listen.”
“Women are sneaky.”
Source: The Hob's Bargain
“Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?”
Source: Wylder's Hand: Horror Collections
“Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.”
“Women are so important.”
“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Women are so often segregated to their sexuality, and how they appear. In fact, there's a lot of talk, even now, I think in most jobs this is true... people will say, when a woman rises to power, they ask, 'who did she sleep with?' You know, it couldn't possibly be about her acumen, it couldn't possibly be about her intelligence. It's got to be about her body, because that's how women get ahead.”
“Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!”
Source: The Twelfth Hour
“Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
“Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.”
Source: Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
“Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love to complete each other. Take away that wall of competition and say, 'Hey, let's just all get together and help each other be brilliant.'”
“Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.”
“Women are so used to being watched that we don't notice when someone's watching us for the worst reason imaginable.”
Source: One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
“Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.”
Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.”
“Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.”
“Women are something great and magnificent in the sight of God... so we should not neglect our female children, we should respect them, because these girls will grow up to become the women who raise and train mankind tomorrow.”
Source: Beyond Bilal: Black History In Islam
“Women are something great and magnificent in the sight of God... so we should not neglect our female children, we should respect them, because these girls will grow up to become the women who raise and train mankind tomorrow
- Shaykh Ibrahim Nissse, Senegal”
Source: Beyond Bilal: Black History In Islam
“Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.”
Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work
“Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.”
“Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Women are still chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics at both a local and national level... But there is one city where those three top jobs will be filled by women for the next year. And that city is Washington D.C.”
“Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”
Source: A Woman's Worth
“Women are still second-class citizens.”
“Women are still treated as secondary issues. It is still far too easy and accepted for leaders to ignore uncomfortable truths… Women, we know, are the first to be affected by war, and the last to be taken into account when it ends.”
“Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.”