Women

(117 votes)   I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

Phyllis Mcginley
1905-1978, American Poet, Author

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(117 votes)   No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

Adrienne Rich
1929-, American Poet

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(115 votes)   Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

Phyllis Mcginley
1905-1978, American Poet, Author

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(113 votes)   The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

Margaret Oliphant
1828-1897, British Novelist, Historian

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(113 votes)   We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(110 votes)   In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Charles Caleb Colton

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(106 votes)   I married beneath me. All women do.

Lady Nancy Astor

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(103 votes)   If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

Sir John Vanbrugh
1664-1726, British Playwright and Baroque architect

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(100 votes)   The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing. Where a man takes up objective problems, a woman contents herself with solving riddles; where he battles for knowledge and understanding, she contents herself with faith or superstition, or else she makes assumptions.

Emma Jung

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(97 votes)   Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(96 votes)   A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(94 votes)   The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(93 votes)   But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(93 votes)   If you were everything a woman wanted, she wouldn't want you anymore.

Deejay Miller

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(90 votes)   They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election.

Corazón Cojuangco Aquino

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