Quotes about Women and Men
"Women belong in the house.... and the Senate."
-Unknown
"God creates dinosaurs
God destroys dinosaurs
God creates man
Man destroys God
Man creates dinosaurs
Dinosaurs eat man
Woman inherits the earth"
--Jurassic Park
"Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage."
--Anonymous
"Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses. Women for their strengths."
--Lois Wyse
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
--Unknown
"I like men to behave like men- strong and childish."
--Francoise Sagan
"Women will never claim their civil rights until they know their social wrongs."
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead and not the forearm."
--Beverly Sills
"Behind every great man is a woman. . .wishing he'd get the hell out of her way."
--Unknown
"Men their rights and nothing more;
women their rights and nothing less.'
--Susan B. Anthony
"Man is the missing link between the ape and the human being."
--Anonymous
"Adam came first, but men always do."
--Anonymous
"I married beneath me. All women do."
--Nancy Astor
"Behind almost every woman you ever heard stands a man who let her down."
--Naomi Bliven
"God created Adam-Then corrected HER mistake."
--Brooklyn Women's Bar Association
"Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride posseses him: God created the gnat before thee."
-The Talmud
"...conflict between my feminine self who wants to live in a man-ruled world, to live in harmony with men, and the creator in me capable of creating a world of my own and a rhythm of my own which I can't find anyone to share."
-Anais Nin
"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."
-Erma Bombeck
I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
-Clarie Sargent
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."
-Clare Boothe Luce
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
-Margaret Thatcher
"Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all."
-Joan Jett
"I'm angry at the Catholic church, because it says that women can't be priests. Right. Like my big dream is to run around in a long black dress and fuck altar boys. But I think I should have the choice. The pope agrees that women cannot be priests, and this is his reason: because there were no women priests when Jesus lived. And that's true. But there was also no pope. Does that stop
him?"
-E. L. Greggory
"If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?"
-Unknown
"No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself."
-Rabbi Sofer
Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or
repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more
important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get
beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging
bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and
if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our
doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect
childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive
and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want
to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and
because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk
on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to
feel guilty about abortion and...for lot's of other reasons we are part of
the women's liberation movement.
I'm a bitch,
I'm a lover,
I'm a child,
I'm a mother,
I'm a sinner,
I do not feel ashamed!
I'm your hell,
I'm your dream,
I'm nothing in between,
You know you wouldn't want me any other way...
-Meredith Brooks, "Bitch"
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a
bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
--Maya Angelou
"People talk about my image, like I come in two dimensions
Like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind
Like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture
Is my new statement for all womankind"
--Ani DiFranco
"Men are like lineoleum floors, if you lay 'em right you can walk on them for years."
--"Grace Kelly" from Grace Under Fire
"For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood."
--Molly Haskell
"People say to me, 'You're not very feminine.' Well, they can suck
my dick."
--Roseanne
"Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with
it."
--forward
"Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that
self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice,
often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing."
--Jeanette Winterson
"Yes, that's right, [men and women] can't be friends. Unless both
of them are involved with other people then they can. This is an
amendment to the earlier rule, if the two people are in relationships,
the pressure of possibilty of involvement is lifted. (Pauses) That
doesn't work either because what happens then is the person you're
involved with can't understand why you need to be friends with the
person you're just friends with. Like it means something is missing from their
relationship and 'why do you have to go outside to get it?'. Then when
you say, 'no no no no, it's not true nothing's missing from the
relationship', the person you're involved with then accuses you of being secretly
attracted to the person you're just friends with, which we probably
are, I mean, come on, who the hell are we kidding, let's face it, which brings
us back to the earlier rule before the amendment which is men and women
can't be friends, so where does that leave us?"
--Harry in When Harry Met Sally
"I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the
beaten path when she feels her walk lies in another."
--Harriet Hosmer
"I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate
long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its
own will...If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself."
--Yoko Ono
"i am not a pretty girl, that is not what i do
i ain't no damsel in distess, and i don't need to be rescued
so put me down punk, maybe you'd prefer a maiden fair
isn't there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere"
--Ani DiFranco
"There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone."
--Gloria Steinem
"All decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'"
--Ani DiFranco
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
--Gloria Steinem
"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself--like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
--Jean Kerr
"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
--George Santayana
"There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats."
-Pablo Picasso
"Feminism is not a doctrine that seeks to confine us but rather a quest we continually define."
-Caroline Soriosis
"My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right
woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the
right woman--concentrate on becoming the right man.'"
-SARK
"I/am a black woman/tall as cypress/strong/befying place/and time/and circumstances/assailed/impervious/indestructible/Look on me and be renewed."
-Mari Evans
"Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men. Luckily, this is not difficult."
-Charlotte Whitton
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels."
-Faith Whittlesey
"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality."
-Ashely Montagu
"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and
then they marry him."
-Cher
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
-Timothy Leary
"Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it
needs a very clever woman to manage a fool."
-Kipling
"Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?"
-Holbrook Jackson
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-Margo Kaufman
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-Dorothy Parker
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-Christopher Morley
"All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others."
- Chad A. Gamble
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-William Congreve
"My brother I'm tired of hearing you talk about how the system is my real enemy, because I know that the system you hit me with is called a fist."
-Pat Parker
"All decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'."
-Ani DiFranco
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