“When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.”
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“People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.”
“I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.”
“Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.”
“When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.”
“It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.”
“I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.”
“Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.”
“I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.”
“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.”
“Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.”
“No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.”
“My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.”
“I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.”
“I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.”
“Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.”
“A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.”
“Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.”
“What I've learned is you treat women right.”
“In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.”
“My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.”
“It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.”
“If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '”
“When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.”