Quotes with women

Quotes 541 till 560 of 898.

  • C. L. R. James The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Lawrence Durrell The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Margaret Thatcher The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Victoria Billings The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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  • Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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  • Shirley Williams The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
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  • Andrea Dworkin The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Adrienne Rich The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Ellen Key The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Helene Deutsch The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • Margaret Fuller The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Andrea Dworkin The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Betty Friedan The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bell Hooks The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. --From Women, Art, and Society: Fourth Edition (2007) by Whitney Chadwick
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Gloria Steinem The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Julie Burchill The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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