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Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I don't want anybody treating me as a "person" rather than as a woman. Our sexual differences are the terms of our life, and to obscure them in any way is to weaken the very fabric of life itself. When they are lost, we are lost.
- Elisabeth Elliot
God might have given Adam another man to be his friend, to walk and talk and argue with if that was his pleasure. But Adam needed more than the companionship of the animals or the friendship of a man. He needed a helper, specially designed and prepared to fill that role. It was a woman God gave him, a woman, "meet," fit, suitable, entirely appropriate for him, made of his very bones and flesh.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Man for the field and woman for the hearth:Man for the sword and for the needle she:Man with the head and woman with the heart:Man to command and woman to obey;All else confusion.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man is the hunter; woman is his game.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Let's face it - selling weapons systems to the Army isn't women's work.
- Judith Love Cohen
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
- Shirley Chisholm
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!
- Isabel Allende
In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls from birth. Equal opportunity and access for both girls and boys must become the norm.
- Shabana Azmi
Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.
- Sheryl Sandberg
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
- Gloria Steinem
Having a CEO, having that person run a news corporation who's female, is already a talking point.
- Harris Faulkner