(47 quotes found)
“The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there”
Betty Grable
“A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to be a blonde her chances rise about 45 percent.”
John McGeorge
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
Joseph Conrad
“Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment”
Arnold Bennett
“I am my own woman.”
Evita Perón
“Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky”
Deborah Kerr
“Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor”
Jane Austen
“A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm”
Edgar Saltus
“The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt”
Betty Friedan
“A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things”
Enriqueta Longauex-Vasquez
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