W Quotes
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“Women empowerment is there to help women make a difference. Not to cause a division between women and men. Therefore, no one should ever feel intimidated by an empowered woman.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Women Empowerment Reminder of The Day. Always respect yourself as a woman. You attract what you are, so be very mindful of how you’re representing yourself. If you want respect, you must first learn how to respect yourself, first. Attracting negative attention is never a good thing. Be a woman of substance! Be a woman that both women and men respect, admire, and look up to. Don’t disrespect yourself by lowering your standards and accepting just anything that comes your way. It’s okay to be single! If you want a relationship of substance, you can’t keep entertaining people and things that mean you no good. Think about it! It’s all up to you.”
“Women empowerment starts by empowering men to understand that women are not inferior to them.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Women encourage killers. They do it by falling in love with warriors and heroes. Men know it and respond with enthusiasm. The Crusaders marched off to war with ladies favors in their helmets. The heroes sliced up adults and baked infants on spits, all the while thinking of how the damsels back home would admire their bravery.”
Source: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
“Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.”
“Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.”
“Women endure entire lifetimes of these indignities—in the form of catcalls, groping, assault, oppression. These things injure us. They sap our strength. Some of the cuts are so small they’re barely visible. Others are huge and gaping, leaving scars that never heal. Either way, they accumulate. We carry them everywhere, to and from school and work, at home while raising our children, at our places of worship, anytime we try to advance.”
Source: Becoming
“Women endure. That’s what we do.”
“That’s nonsense,” she replied more harshly than I expected. “A woman is more than a vessel meant to carry babies and grief.”
Source: Go as a River
“Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight children and never once did I cry like I saw some of those men out there before they even fired their first shot! I think it has something to do with the unnaturalness of killing compared to the naturalness of giving birth.”
Source: So Far from God
“Women enjoy controlling an inferior man but desperately crave being controlled by a superior man. They are always frustrated that they can never control the superior man, so they take it out on the inferior man.
They feel like they can get into the dominant man’s head by exerting control over a submissive man. They see how easy it is to control a little sissy, but they are amazed at how their sexual power over the sissy is dwarfed by the power of a true man.
They see a man who can handle them, another man, and probably other women. And they desperately want to be owned by him. This is an addiction for most women. “
- Timothy J. Smith, psychologist
From ’Natural Blond”
Source: Natural Blond
“Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.”
“Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.”
“Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.”
“Women, especially mothers, have always been expected to be nurturing, kind, empathetic. I don't think we put out sons under as much pressure to have those qualities (and we should).”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“Women especially value the goodness of others and wish to help uplift those they meet regardless of their differences.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Women, even the most oppressed among us, do exercise power. These powers can be used to advance feminist struggle. Forms of power held by exploited and oppressed groups are described in Elizabeth Janeway's important work Powers of the Weak. One of the most significant forms of power held by the weak is "the refusal to accept the definition of oneself that is put forward by the powerful". Janeway call this the "ordered use of the power to disbelieve". She explains:
It is true that one may not have a coherent self-definition to set against the status assigned by the established social mythology, and that is not necessary for dissent. By disbelieving, one will be led toward doubting prescribed codes of behaviour, and as one begins to act in ways that can deviate from the norm in any degree, it becomes clear that in fact there is not just one right way to handle or understand events.
Women need to know that they can reject the powerful's definition of their reality --- that they can do so even if they are poor, exploited, or trapped in oppressive circumstances. They need to know that the exercise of this basic personal power is an act of resistance and strength. Many poor and exploited women, especially non-white women, would have been unable to develop positive self-concepts if they had not exercised their power to reject the powerful's definition of their reality. Much feminist thought reflects women's acceptance of the definition of femaleness put forth by the powerful. Even though women organizing and participating in feminist movement were in no way passive, unassertive, or unable to make decisions, they perpetuated the idea that these characteristics were typical female traits, a perspective that mirrored male supremacist interpretation of women's reality. They did not distinguish between the passive role many women assume in relation to male peers and/or male authority figures, and the assertive, even domineering, roles they assume in relation to one another, to children, or to those individuals, female or male, who have lower social status, who they see as inferiors, This is only one example of the way in which feminist activists did not break with the simplistic view of women's reality s it was defined by powerful me. If they had exercised the power to disbelieve, they would have insisted upon pointing out the complex nature of women's experience, deconstructing the notion that women are necessarily passive or unassertive.”
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view. Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence.”
Source: The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
“Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.”
“Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other”
“Women experience the world as mystery. Kept ignorant of technology, economics, most of the practical skills required to function autonomously, kept ignorant of the real social and sexual demands made on women, deprived of physical strength, excluded from forums for the development of intellectual acuity and public self-confidence, women are lost and mystified by the savage momentum of an ordinary life”
Source: Right-Wing Women
“Women face a lot of challenges every day - we have to stand firm in our walk and our intentions - but there are times when that weight feels too heavy, feels like a load that I just can't bear that day. I try to work through that in my art, whatever medium that might be. My live performance is based around the color red, and all the things that communicates as a woman to the world - fiery, really vocal, present, almost a kind of stubborn color - and redefining it as being very complex. Being able to express that complexity, I'm getting a lot better at that the older I've gotten.”
“Women face an uphill battle, from sexism and violence to inequality. In some areas, they are forced to deal with a culture that promotes primitive practices that endanger them, not just physically, but emotionally as well.”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“Women facing sexual violence rarely speak up or call the police because they know what awaits them. Even good men hate it when women express their feelings, often responding with mockery, insults or threats. There’s a box in the minds of American men, a box labeled 'Girl Problems,' into which men can stuff any complaint made by women they wish to ignore.”
Source: Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion
“Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.”
“Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave”
“Women fall in love while men stand in love.”
“Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Women feel everything deeply but express subtly.”
“Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it.”
“Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.”
“Women feel the most secure when they see true love for themselves in their partner’s eyes. And for them, security equals happiness.”
“Women feel things deeply. We empathize. For good reason, when asked to identify their best friend, most men name their wives; most women name another woman.”
Source: Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
“Women fight differently from men. You couldn’t get me to hurt a woman’s breasts for anything. I know how tender my own are when I’m PMSing. Besides, we feed babies with them.”
Source: Faefever
“Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.”
“Women figured out the aging hormone connection decades ago with hormone replacement therapy. Aging men are kept dumb by the medical profession about their need for testosterone replacement therapy!”
“Women find good men boring; this is exactly what is wrong with society today”
Source: Nothing But The Truth...
“Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.”
“Women find little pleasure in the society of women.”
“Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.”
Source: Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self
“Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, that we keep them amused with trifles so that we may more easily remain their masters; they blame us for the faults we attribute to them. What stupidity! And since when is it men who concern themselves with the education of girls? Who is preventing the mothers from raising them as they please? There are no schools for girls—what a tragedy! Would God, there were none for boys! They would be raised more sensibly and more straightforwardly. Is anyone forcing your daughters to waste their time on foolish trifles? Are they forced against their will to spend half their lives on their appearance, following your example? Are you prevented from instructing them, or having them instructed according to your wishes? Is it our fault if they please us when they are beautiful, if their airs and graces seduce us, if the art they learn from you attracts and flatters us, if we like to see them tastefully attired, if we let them display at leisure the weapons with which they subjugate us? Well then, decide to raise them like men; the men will gladly agree; the more women want to resemble them, the less women will govern them, and then men will truly be the masters.”
Source: Emile, or On Education
“Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.”
“Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.”
Source: The old judge; or, Life in a colony, by the author of 'Sam Slick, the clockmaker'.
“Women formed from black smoke come to me at night and they scream for me to not cut their throats or twist those tiny necks. They beg and cry. Then right at the moment when I can't take anymore, I rush up to them, slashing at the smoke with my hands. Do they go away? Never. They turn into familiar faces.”
Source: Bad for You
“Women fought for suffrage around the world. First to win it were New Zealanders, in 1893—but no New Zealand woman held a high-level political position until 1947. Women in South Australia won the vote in 1894, and it was the first state to allow them to stand for parliament, but other Australian women had to wait until 1947. Finnish women voted in 1904 after only twenty years of agitation; Russian women in 1917, after the revolution. Sometimes women won suffrage but remained barred from highlevel political life. In Norway, women won the vote in 1913, but did not begin to stand for high political office until 1945; Sweden, 1919 and 1947; the Netherlands, 1919 and 1956; Germany, 1919 and 1956; Brazil, 1932 and 1982; and Turkey, 1934 and 1971. In Egypt, men adamantly opposed woman suffrage until 1956. Other countries surrendered even later. But women won. And they won with only themselves—without weapons, political rights, or much wealth, they had only their minds, bodies, spirits, voices, influence, charm, rage, tenderness, and strength to turn the world around. And they did.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 3
“Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher - a nothing.”
“Women from fashion magazines, they hate other women. They like to tell other women they are ugly and often it works. Women's magazines are mostly about the outside and not about the inside. About make-up instead of arts and literature. Its such a shame.”
“Women from the enslaved class were forced and trained to dance and sing in royal courts and in front of men from the upper class, becoming, for the first time in history, “objects to be enjoyed”. This objectification and loss of authority of women gradually extended beyond the world of slave women and infiltrated the bedrooms of ordinary women across society, permeating all domains of human culture.”
Source: For Humans To Know: New Revised Edition
“Women fuck us up, break our hearts, drive us mad, and yet we love them; because if we didn't, nothing would make sense.”
“Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.”