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she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardly call a woman wise who does that.
- George Eliot
No sooner does a woman show that she has genius or effective talent, than she receives the tribute of being moderately praised and severely criticised.
- George Eliot
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.
- Sojourner Truth
The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
- Candace Bushnell
My sex appeal lies in suits and ties, but my body is femme.
- Rain Dove
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about? And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do.
- Maria Edgeworth
What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by the women?
- Aristotle
Dalila: In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. Samson: For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!
- John Milton
I feel that women should start to get to be recognized more because for some reason not all men want to recognize us or not all people, but I think that's a minority. I think the majority of people are ready.
- Donna Strickland
I will conquer Femmeness... And then, I will turn it on its head and redefine it for the world to see.
- Rain Dove
I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.
- Tina Fey