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“Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.”

Humans Mean Ideas Values Women Feminism Demand Profound Revolutionary Parenthood Banking Women Equality Human Psyche Revolutionary Ideas

Author:Polly Toynbee

“Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.”

Men Mean Use Fighting Women Knowing Survival Enlightenment Sexuality Dependent Not Knowing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Being inclusive sometimes means being kind toward people whose views are repugnant. But you should only do so if it is physically and emotionally safe for you.”

People Ifs Should Kind Mean Sometimes Women Views Safe Be Kind

Author:Amy Dickinson

“When a guy says, "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," he means "Don't make a fuss over my birthday". When we say "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," we mean "Give me a surprise party. Do something lavish. Just don't tell everyone my age."”

Giving Mean Age Guy Women Party Give Me Surprise My Birthday Surprise Party

Author:Joy Browne

“Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.”

Mean Culture Women Insane

Author:Geneen Roth

“Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.”

Mean Women Forget Size Never Forget Elephants

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”

Inspirational Mean Reason Women Independent Memorable Independent Thought

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.”

Mean Children Two Together Women Half Sky Creating Other Half

Author:John Lennon

“When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.”

Mean Three Women Hair Craziness Victorian Sexiness Victorian Times

Author:Margaret Atwood

“When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.”

Mean Women Moral Lows Inflation Skirts Corsets

Author:James Laver

“No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.”

Men Mean Women Assuming

Book:The Mother Hunt

Source: The Mother Hunt

“The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Mean Littles Important Home Women Animal Strange Birth Creatures Female Profound Males Notion Spread Caves Innovative Giving Birth Hunted

Book:Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970

Source: Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970