W Quotes
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“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”
“Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Women have been deceiving men since the Garden of Eden. They’ve had centuries of practice.”
Source: The Witch of Napoli
“Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.”
“Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.”
“Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who do. I don't really think it makes people look better; they just look different.”
“Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have a primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each others' sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
“Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.”
“Women (...) have been encouraged since they were children to be dependent to an unhealthy degree. Any woman who looks within knows that she was never trained to be comfortable with the idea of taking care of herself, standing up for herself, asserting herself. At best she may have played the game of independence, inwardly envying the boys (and later the men) because they seemed so naturally self-sufficient.
It is not nature that bestows this self-sufficiency on men; it's training. Males are educated for independence from the day they are born. Just as systematically, women are taught that they have an out - that someday, in some way, they are going to be saved. That is the fairy tale, the life-message (...) We may venture out on our own for a while. We may go away to school, work, travel; we may even make good money, but underneath it all there is a finite quality to our feelings about independence. Only hang on long enough, the childhood story goes, and someday someone will come along to rescue you from the anxiety of authentic living. (The only savior the boy learns about is himself.)”
Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
“Women have been funny for years.”
“Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation without woman. She is principal, a powerful energy. She is first.”
“Women have been kicking ass for centuries.”
“Women have been monsters, and monsters have been women.”
Source: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
“Women have been oppressed for so long in any industry, it just takes time for a shift to happen to create more equality in any field, but I feel like it's slowly happening now. It's just things don't change over night. It's the same for racism, homophobia, xenophobia etc. If you think back even just 15 years and see how different people's mentalities were then, think how much more progress and equality we cab reach in another 15 years.”
“Women have been programmed to view our bodies only in terms of how they look and feel to others, rather than how they feel to ourselves, and how we wish to use them. We are surrounded by media images portraying women as essentially decorative machines of consumer function, constantly doing battle with rampant decay. (Take your vitamins every day and he might keep you, if you don’t forget to whiten your teeth, cover up your smells, color your grey hair and iron out your wrinkles....) As women, we fight this depersonalization every day, this pressure toward the conversion of one’s own self-image into a media expectation of what might satisfy male demand.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”
“Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.”
“Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.”
“Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.”
“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”
“Women have been the most intelligent, peaceful and positive influences in my life, I don't want to generalize too much, but definitely in my experience, I've found the whole macho world of male aggression and insecurity to be a lot more difficult to exist in.”
Source: Zayn
“Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.”
“Women have been using their ‘womanly wiles’ to influence male’s behavior for thousands of years. Why are they suddenly crying foul after they receive favor from those same men, some even decades before? They knew what they were doing from the start but had no problem accepting the benefits from those influential men. Why do women feel like they have the right to make outrageous claims of sexual harassment against men while destroying careers, businesses, and families with no repercussions?”
“Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.”
“Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.”
“Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.”
“Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.”
“Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.”
“Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.”
“Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.”
“Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands of years and still today.”
“Women have different characteristics and needs than men do.”
“Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love.”
“Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families would not survive without two incomes, partly because they are not at all sure their marriages will last. The day of the husband as permanent meal-ticket is over, a fact most women recognize, however they feel about "women's liberation.”
“Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.”
“Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.”
“Women have evolved, and we are starting to recognize our strength and the influence that comes with it. We are beginning to realize that in this day and age, submissiveness does not allow us to have the upper hand, but obtaining the respect of a man does.”
Source: This Girl's Got an Ex: A Smart Girl’s Guide to Getting an ex Back and Making him Realize What he’s Lost
“Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.”
“Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential.”
“Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.”
“Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.”
“Women have got it all wrong now. They give it up too soon, and the men don't respect them. And before you tell me I don't have a clue, let me tell you something. By the time I let my future husbands climb into my bed, I'd made them work for it. And you know what? By the time they left it the next morning, they were begging for me to marry them.”
Source: My Wolf Fighter
“Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.”
“Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.”
Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation
“Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.”
Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation
“Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?”
“Women have had to learn, often painfully and always with reluctance, that their freedom will not simply come of its own accord.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.”