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The Bible's message for women doesn't depend on ideal circumstances, but applies fully to those who live in the brutal outskirts of society where poverty engulfs, education is nonexistent, women's bodies are ravaged, and lives are in constant peril simply because they are female.
— Carolyn Custis James
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
— Milan Kundera
back in the seventies, when women began to straddle chairs and dance crotch out on television, when all the magazines started featuring behinds and inner thighs as though that's all there is to a woman, well, I shut up altogether.
— Toni Morrison
Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
— Gloria Steinem
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
— Gloria Steinem
In 1847, a certain Count Leopold Ferri died at Padua, leaving a library entirely composed of works written by women, in various languages, and this library amounted to nearly 32,000 volumes.
— George Eliot
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
— Edith Wharton
In retrospect, the second cause for delay makes less feminist sense: the long popularity of assertiveness training. Though most women needed to be more assertive (or even more aggressive, though that word was considered too controversial), many assertiveness courses taught women how to play the existing game, not how to change the rules.
— Gloria Steinem
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
— Martin Luther
For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.
— Nancy Pearcey
Abortion is profoundly anti-women.
— Mother Teresa
I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.
— Marianne Williamson