2,065 Quotes About Woman

I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman.

If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman

To be a woman is to be warbound, knowing all the odds are stacked against you.

She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.

There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.

Why, though, does it take a mother, daughter, sister for men to take a woman at her word?

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual consciousness and from breaking through the barriers of sexual repression, of keeping alive their sexual anxieties and guilt feelings. The very existence of woman as a sexual being would threaten authoritarian ideology; her recognition and social affirmation would mean its collapse.