How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin. . . . Murder is more civilized than divorce; the Victorians, as usual, were wiser. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: divorce murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I will love You forever," swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. I will love You at 4:15 pm next Tuesday: is that still as easy? —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: love forever Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We were classically in love, holding the classic beliefs: Everything is possible between us, we can authentically care for each other through not just the coming days but . . . the numerous busy decades to come. . . . It's in no way denigrating to admit what we all know: This time comes and then it goes. —Jane Shapiro More about this quote Tags: love care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. —Dorothy Parker More about this quote Tags: love tightness clenching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: feminism women liberation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The day will come when man will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race. —Susan B. Anthony More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had ever learned to type, I never would have made brigadier general. —Elizabeth Hoisington, one of the first two female U.S. Army officers to attain the rank More about this quote Tags: power military Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Feminism, as I understand it, is the permanent pursuit of equality. It began long before Susan B. Anthony, and it doesn't end until every government in the world guarantees equal opportunity, equal pay for equal work, and a woman's right to control her own reproduction. Women can no more give it up, or de-emphasize it, than black Americans could quit fighting for civil rights and economic justice. It's as basic as struggling to breathe when someone holds you underwater. —Hal Crowther More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As to the great mass of working girls and women, how much independence is gained if the narrowness and lack of freedom of the home is exchanged for the narrowness and lack of freedom of the factory, sweatshop, department store, or office? —Emma Goldman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. —Bella Abzug More about this quote Tags: struggle gender discrimination brilliance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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