“Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.”
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.
“I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.”
“Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.”
“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”
“Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.”
“I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.”
“I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.”
“Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.”
“To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?”
“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”
“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.”
“I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.”
“The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.”
“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
“People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.”
“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”
“It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.”