“You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.”
Women have always shaped the world, even when the world refused to acknowledge it. These quotes explore feminism, strength, identity, motherhood, ambition, and the ongoing work of making sure half the population gets a full seat at the table.
“And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.”
“You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.”
“It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.”
“Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.”
“If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.”
“I think older women still have a full life.”
“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
“After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.”
“People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.”
“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”
“Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
“You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.”
“The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.”
“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”
“Men and women, women and men. It will never work.”