- Commerce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women Quotes
On confidence, identity and being true to yourself.
These quotes discuss women's confidence and identity from a few angles: resisting pressure to act a certain way, and the discipline shown by women serving alongside men in the military. For related reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until feminists started wailing about the female's passivity, submissiveness, and something called 'victim status,' I had no idea women were such doormats. My childhood was populated by Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Pearl Buck, Marie Curie, Clare Boothe Luce, and the Duchess of Windsor.
- Lit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that titillated men and women alike. This is the woman that feminists destroyed when they pressured the media for 'positive images' of lesbians.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don't cross.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson - two people I've looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love watching faces as they grow up. It's the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women. I like a face that hasn't been tampered with.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move. And I'm a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
- Feisty
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- Nov 07, 2020