“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”
Others on Gender
Simone de Beauvoir
6 quotes“One is not born a woman - one becomes one.”
Susan B. Anthony
4 quotes“The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?”
Gloria Steinem
3 quotes“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”
Margaret Thatcher
1 quote“It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”
William Butler
1 quote“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”
Michelle Obama
1 quote“The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.”
Erica Jong
1 quote“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
Pearl Buck
1 quote“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside ne...”
Robert Jordan
1 quote“The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
Golda Meir
1 quote“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1 quote“Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”
H. L. Mencken
1 quote“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”