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Letter "W" » Women
«When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man»
«When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.»
«When men are oppressed it is a tragedy, when women are oppressed it is a tradition.»
«What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
creatures, cry, defenseless, poor
«What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways»
Author: Judith S. Marin
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
courteous, intended, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts, set apart
«What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?»
«When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression»
Author: Sheila Jeffrys
| About:
Men,
Men and Women,
Relationships,
Sex,
Women
| Keywords:
collaborate, collaborated, collaborating, oppression, orgasm, orgasms, patriarchal, reaches, system
«What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.»
«When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Men,
Women
| Keywords:
Sung
«When a woman turns to scholarship there is usually something wrong with her sexual opportunities»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
opportunities, scholarship, sexual, turns, usually
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