“The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt”
Betty Friedan
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
Joseph Conrad
“If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do”
Helen Lawrenson
“Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor”
Jane Austen
“Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky”
Deborah Kerr
“Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment”
Arnold Bennett
“No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society”
Naomi Wolf
