“ Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull. Francoise Sagan
“ I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray. Neal Shusterman
“ Ah, selfish. There’s that word again.” Sherry smirked. “It’s been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife is all about selflessness, see?” She imitated a perky, syrupy-sweet voice. “… Andrea Lochen
“ Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there… Anita Diamant
“ I'm just saying, when a woman in a maiden, she's in the spotlight. Everybody cares what a pretty, young girl does and says. And she's got some pretty strict archetypes to adhere to: Sleeping Beauty or… Rufi Thorpe
“ It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there. Sabrina Chapadjiev
“ Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation. Bonnie Marcus
“ We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow. Margot McCuaig
“ Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which w… Jessica Valenti
“ The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. Erica Bauermeister
“ Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything. Margaret Way
“ I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them, until he was at last able to experience how he himself had repeatedly been… Alice Miller
“ Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before. Kate Millett
“ There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. Adrienne Rich
“ That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience "didn't want to see a sketch with two women" can go shit in his hat. Tina Fey
“ Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and approp… Karen Swallow Prior
“ An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison Pearl S. Buck
“ Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labourin… Laurie Penny
“ If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line. Baby Halder
“ I am not your dog that you whistle for; I’m not a stray animal you call over, and I am not, I never have been, nor will I ever be, your “baby”! Joy Jennings
