(833 quotes found)
“Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player”
Albert Einstein
“The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"”
Lori Gottlieb
“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.”
Mae West
“The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived”
George James
“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
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong
“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
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it”
Charlotte Bronte
