“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”
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Simone de Beauvoir
6 quotes“: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.”
Susan B. Anthony
4 quotes“I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's ri...”
Alice Walker
1 quote“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”
Erica Jong
1 quote“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
Golda Meir
1 quote“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”
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.”
Heinrich Heine
1 quote“Woman is at once apple and serpent.”
Joseph Addison
1 quote“As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.”
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.”
Julian Barnes
1 quote“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
Margaret Mead
1 quote“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”
Michelle Obama
1 quote“The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.”