英语格言警句_Women_(W9)

The most respected women are the most oppressed.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine, or flower. (1853)

- Jane G. Swissholm

A better time is ing. Women, capable of using their facilities for the improvement of society, will not much longer remain in the castle of indolence. Would that those of my sex who are urging, onward, into the industrial pursuits, and other professions appropriate to men, might turn their attention to improvements in domestic economy. Here is an open field, where their heads and hearts as well as hands may find ample scope and noble objects.

- Sarah J. Hale

Women have convinced ourselves that we can do what men can do. But we haven't convinced ourselves and therefore haven't convinced our country, that men can do what women can do.

- Gloria Steinem

Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

One of the sad mentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

- Faye Wattleton

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have a brain and a uterus and I use them both.

- Pat Schroeder

The search for human freedom can never be plete without freedom for women.

- Betty Ford

Can a woman bee a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social wele of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

- Susan B. Anthony

To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oning generations.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

It is fair to assume that when women in the past have achieved even a second or third place in the ranks of genius they have shown far more native ability than men have needed to reach the same eminence. Not excused from the more general duties that constitute the cement of society, most women of talent have had but one hand free with which to work out their ideal conceptions.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

- Madame de Stael

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

- Robin Morgan

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

- Howard Zinn

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

- Julia Child

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks of State must each produce his plan,And even children lisp the Rights of Man;Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

- Robert Burns

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

- Charlotte Bronte

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

- Wilma Mankiller

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

- Barbara De Angelis

The most direct cause of women's misfortune is poverty; demanding their freedom means above all demanding reform in the economy of society which will eradicate poverty and give everyone an education, a minimum standard of living, and the right to work. [1838]

- Zoe Gatti de Gamond

Just think -- guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.

- Eleanor Smeal

Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

- Heywood Broun

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

My goal is to be accused of being strident.

- Susan Faludi

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and passion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

- Barbara Jordan

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

- Carrie Chapman Catt

She was the cornerstone of our family and a woman of extraordinary acplishment, strength and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances. [with his sister, on the death of his grandmother Madelyn Dunham just before the November 2008 election]

- Barack Obama

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men -- but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

- Robin Morgan

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the monsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and inplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

- Gloria Steinem

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

- Jane Galvin Lewis

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power.You just take it.

- Roseanne Barr

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed.If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes."They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."

- Clare Boothe Luce

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of, you know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife, wow!

- Barack Obama

Men and women belong to different species and munications between them is still in its infancy.

- Bill Cosby

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

- Claudette Colbert