W Quotes
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“Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.”
“Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Harmony and conflict-solving run in their veins. Whereas men have evolved into more authoritarian creatures.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Women of the west are determined for life to be different and better for us out here,” Jill pointed out. “It takes some time for newcomers to catch on to what it means to us to carve out a new life here in this wilderness. Think how long it has taken for Honey River Canyon to grow. When we arrived, barely anything was here.”
—Jillian Hayes, "Sparrow’s Hope" by Lisa M. Prysock.”
Source: Sparrow's Hope
“Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.”
“Women of the world crave excitement.”
“Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems only to have a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone.”
“Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.”
“Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that is is the task of women of Color to educated white women - in the face of tremendous resistance - as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.”
“Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For me, a woman of worth is someone who has self respect, who believes that she can change things in society.”
“Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.”
“Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.”
“Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.”
Source: The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
“Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.”
“Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.”
Source: Under My Skin
“Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.”
“Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.”
“Women often reason that an unspayed cat is a way to teach the facts of life to their children. That's what they say. Actually, it all boils down to a type of voyeurism, with more interest in breading and birthing than any true interest in children or cats.
The wife of someone we know refused to have their female cat spayed because, she said, "I want my children to watch the miracle of birth." When too many kittens accumulated, her husband took them up to the top of a mountain road near us and abandoned them in the brush.”
Source: Do Cats Think?: Notes of a Cat-Watcher
“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”
Source: The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Women ofttimes respect those whom they hate and even will advance them because of policy, but let those whom they pretend to love beware.”
Source: Moon of Israel
“Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!”
Source: Cloud Atlas
“Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.”
“Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.”
“Women on trains
have a life
that is exactly livable
the precision of days flashing past”
Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
“Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.”
Source: Midnight Cactus
“Women only love men they don't know.”
Source: A Hero of Our Time
“Women only love those that they don’t know.”
“Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”
Source: Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel
“Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them.”
Source: The Last Word
“Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.”
“Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.”
Source: Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden
“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”
Source: The Age of Innocence: American Literature
“Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.”
“Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.”
“Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.”
“Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it”
“Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.”
“Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.”
“Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.”
“Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.”
“Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.”
“Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.”
“Women play an integral role in human society, and their contributions are essential to the development and growth of societies worldwide.”
“Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?”
“Women play into each other's weaknesses.”
“Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.”
“Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.”