One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Jeanne d'ArcTag: inspirational women feminism historical legendary
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Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.
Roseanne BarrTag: men women travel maps penises directions overcompensation
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.
Roseanne BarrTag: women menstruation pms
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.
Tag: books love education gender opportunities men women feminism misogyny inequality stereotypes constancy double-standards clichés social-norms
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?
Lisa SeeEveryone knows that part of the spirit descends to the afterworld, while part of it remains with the family, but we have a special belief about the spirit of a young woman who has died before her marriage that goes contrary to this. She comes back to prey upon other unmarried girls--not to scare them but to take them to the afterworld with her so she might have company.
Lisa SeeIt is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Mary WollstonecraftTag: empowerment gender women morality freedom virtue feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy independence double-standards social-norms
On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
H.L. MenckenTag: women
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand RussellTag: science men women prejudice aristotle misconceptions
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Washington IrvingTag: love women romantic abjected
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