899 private quotes tagged women

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.” — Margaret Mead

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“Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.” — Samuel Gompers

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“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.” — Spike Lee

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“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.” — Augustus Y. Napier

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“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.” — George Jean Nathan

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“I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony.” — Carol Alt

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“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.” — Andrew Cohen

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“Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.” — George W. Bush

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“Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.” — Taslima Nasrin

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“Women are always beautiful.” — Ville Valo

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“Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.” — Kathleen Turner

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“The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.” — Nora Ephron

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“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.” — Mary Schmich

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“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” — Gloria Steinem

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“I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.” — E. M. Forster

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“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.” — Erma Bombeck

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“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” — Marcel Proust

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“I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.” — Megan Fox

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“Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.” — Emma Goldman

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“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Most women are one man away from welfare.” — Gloria Steinem

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“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.” — Helen Rowland

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