(47 quotes found)
“What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?”
Rita Mae Brown
“I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me”
Jane Rule
“A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm”
Edgar Saltus
“You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again”
Joan Rivers
“I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”
Gloria Steinem
“Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature”
Petronius
“The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.”
Mae West
“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
“When the candles are out all women are fair”
Plutarch
“So few grown women like their lives”
Katharine Graham
