There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: jobs gender discrimination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children. —Ann Richards More about this quote Tags: children poverty work women blame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? —Linda Ellerbee More about this quote Tags: power fashion clothing men neckties Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Women have the power of life and death. We, after all, give birth and the fate of humanity is in our hands. That is why men try so hard to rule us, my dear. They know if we once looked well on what they have made of the human existence, we might close our legs and within our barren wombs bring the comedy to an end. —Alice Borchardt More about this quote Tags: humanity life death women birth men Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'll bet you one thing, if the man had to have the first baby there wouldn't be but two in the family. Yes sir, let him have the first one and the woman have the next one, and his time wouldn't come around no more. —Josephine Riley Matthews More about this quote Tags: family birth men babies pregnancy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. —Rebecca West More about this quote Tags: men and women Lunatics idiots Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time . . . love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. —Lawrence Durrell More about this quote Tags: love women fools charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. . . . I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines. —Trieu Thi Trinh More about this quote Tags: power will women resignation forbearance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game done with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul — and not just individual strength, but collective understanding — to resist this void . . . and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The basic Female Body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl. —Shirley Chisholm More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. —Johann Gottlieb Fichte More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy, and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. —Robert Brault More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can, and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: morality regret repentance remore Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email