Quotations About / On: WOMAN

  • 21.
    What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
    (Flora Tristan (1803-1844), French novelist. Promenades Dans Londres, ch. 17 (1840).)
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  • 22.
    Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
    (Eleanor Bron (b.1934), British actor, author. Times (London, July 28, 1992).)
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  • 23.
    A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
    (Jo Swerling (b. 1897), U.S. screenwriter, Robert Riskin, dialog, and John Ford. Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson), The Whole Town's Talking, commenting after indulging in a good cigar and a good bit of whiskey (1935). Based on the novel by W.R. Burnett.)
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  • 24.
    ... today we round out the first century of a professed republic,—with woman figuratively representing freedom—and yet all free, save woman.
    (Phoebe W. Couzins (1845-1913), U.S. suffragist. As quoted in The History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 3, ch. 27, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886). At a convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association held on the centennial of American independence in the First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia.)
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  • 25.
    Women have no sympathy ... and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
    (Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse. letter, Dec. 13, 1861. Forever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters, ch. 3 (1989). Refuting the argument that women had been more sympathetic to her work than men.)
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  • 26.
    My men have become women, but the women men.
    (Herodotus (c. 484-424 B.C.), Greek historian. The Histories, 8.88.)
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  • 27.
    In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
    (Angela Carter (1940-1992), British author. "Polemical Preface," The Sadeian Woman (1979).)
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  • 28.
    Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.
    (Simone Schwarz-Bart (b. 1938), Gaudeloupean author. Élie in The Bridge of Beyond, p. 71, Éditions du Seuil (1972).)
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  • 29.
    Why are women ... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
    (Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. A Room of One's Own, ch. 2 (1929).)
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  • 30.
    You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
    (Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986), U.S. songwriter, screenwriter. Adam (Oscar Levant), An American In Paris, to Jerry (Gene Kelly), who's having romantic problems (1951).)
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