“ This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes. Adriana Trigiani
“ The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you. Criss Jami
“ Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man? Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
“ I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and… Hannah More
“ Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves. Gloria Steinem
“ Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulf… Betty Friedan
“ A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological funct… Betty Friedan
“ But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault? Richard Aldington
“ They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overquali… Jo Nesbo
“ If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched hermaybe you should take a looks at your hands. Kaija Sabbah
“ The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that thou… Jane Austen
“ What I mean is that modern women like you are all, to a greater or lesser extend, hard...It's the yearning. Plainly and simply, it's the yearning."Yearning? For what? {Miss Prim]The yearning you all d… Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera
“ She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administer… Jane Austen
“ The disobedience if Eve in the Genesis story has been used to justify women's inequality and suffering in many Christian traditions. Thus, what is understood as women's complicity in evil leads much t… Melissa V. Harris-Perry
“ Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played… Merlin Stone
“ No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder… Gloria Steinem
“ Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."—when they… Vera Nazarian
“ There's this mental illness, right? It's called 'anhedonia.' It means 'without pleasure.' You can look it up, though all you really need to do is look around." She motioned to the door the other women… Vicki Pettersson
“ And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to ex… Joanna Russ
“ Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don’t have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You’re allowed to cry and take care of childre… Mur Lafferty
