“Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.”
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“We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.”
“I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.”
“Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.”
“Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.”
“I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.”
“Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.”
“All my friends' mothers were appalling women.”
“I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.”
“You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.”
“Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.”
“If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.”
“You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.”
“I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.”
“Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.”
“The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”
“I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.”
“Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.”
“What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.”
“I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.”
“God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”
“Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.”
“Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.”
“To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.”