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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
- Freer
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- Nov 07, 2020
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020