I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
Rebecca WestTags: empowerment women opinions feminism clichés womens-liberation
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.
Jane AustenTags: perception education empowerment equality girls reason men women stupidity prejudice ignorance foolishness stereotypes disdain clichés charms desirability folly imbecility inferiority
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment gender women morality feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés womanhood dignity protectiveness social-norms
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Tags: books love education gender opportunities men women feminism misogyny inequality stereotypes constancy double-standards clichés social-norms
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
Mary WollstonecraftTags: intelligence greatness empowerment gender women beauty history self-determination achievement stereotypes clichés distinction gentleness
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Jane AustenTags: strength empowerment equality gender reason men women feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy independence rationality stereotypes flattery double-standards clichés social-norms women-s-rights
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
Tags: similes clichés nails well-worn-phrases
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane AustenTags: intelligence empowerment knowledge women feminism prejudice ignorance vanity sarcasm irony stereotypes attachment clichés preconceptions concealment
Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?'
She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.
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When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
Bette DavisTags: empowerment gender women opinions feminism misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes double-standards clichés speaking-out
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