“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”
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“Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.”
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
“I owe nothing to Women's Lib.”
“All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.”
“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
“Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.”
“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”
“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
“It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.”
“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.”
“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”
“This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.”
“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
“The test of civilization is its estimate of women.”
“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”
“I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.”
“I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.”
“Women hold up half the sky.”
“Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”
“I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.”
“On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.”