Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
I am my own woman.
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can’t they fly in space?
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long.
Women are the sustaining force of any society – they think of the children and the next generation’s chances.
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
