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Letter "W" » Women
«Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.»
«She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply»
Author: Bella Abzug
| About:
Politicians,
Politics,
Women
| Keywords:
billions, challenging, militarism, reserve, wedded
«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.»
Author: Bella Abzug
| About:
Feminism,
Struggle,
Women
| Keywords:
appointed, assistant, assistants, assistant professor, professor, promoted, schlemiel
«One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.»
«Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone»
«Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age»
«Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.»
Author: Helene Cixous
| About:
Introversion,
Self-Awareness,
Women,
Writing
| Keywords:
manage, operate, passage, rapidly
«Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature»
Author: Petronius
| About:
Beauty,
Being a Woman,
Gifts,
Nature,
Women
| Keywords:
attractive, outward, playfulness, sweet talk, transcend
«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»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
People,
Women
| Keywords:
come in, declining, dimensions, lipstick, my image, My picture, statement, talking picture, two dimensions, wearing, womankind
«Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.»
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