18-01-2022, 02:06 PM
"We ask ourselves in some bewilderment, if women commit deeds of violence only when their monthly period induces an emotional instability, when do men commit their six times as many deeds of violence?"
Alice Beal Parsons 1926
"If ever you want a really good laugh, I would recommend reading up some of the incredibly involved & convoluted arguments of a male evolutionist trying to explain why woman, alone of all the primates, equipped herself with a hymen, which appears on the face of it to have no other purpose than to keep him out. "
Elaine Morgan. 1972
"We are told that men protect us, that they are generous, even chivalric in their protection.
Gentlemen, if your protectors were women, & they took all your property & your children, & paid you half as much for your work, though as well or better done, would you think much of the chivalry which permitted you to sit on streetcars & picked up your pocket handkerchief? "
Mary B Clay 1884
Feminist quotes, various.
"Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?"
Florence Kennedy
"This whole society is like slow dancing - the men get to lead & the women get stepped on."
Lily Tomlin
"It seems that in order to be the kind of woman who's strong enough to live with a man, you tend to become the kind of woman no man wants to live with."
Lotus Weinstock
"I have five sons & therefore have to go out a lot."
Joan Kerr
Pulling our own strings, Gloria Kauffman & Mary-Kay Blakely.
Alice Beal Parsons 1926
"If ever you want a really good laugh, I would recommend reading up some of the incredibly involved & convoluted arguments of a male evolutionist trying to explain why woman, alone of all the primates, equipped herself with a hymen, which appears on the face of it to have no other purpose than to keep him out. "
Elaine Morgan. 1972
"We are told that men protect us, that they are generous, even chivalric in their protection.
Gentlemen, if your protectors were women, & they took all your property & your children, & paid you half as much for your work, though as well or better done, would you think much of the chivalry which permitted you to sit on streetcars & picked up your pocket handkerchief? "
Mary B Clay 1884
Feminist quotes, various.
"Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?"
Florence Kennedy
"This whole society is like slow dancing - the men get to lead & the women get stepped on."
Lily Tomlin
"It seems that in order to be the kind of woman who's strong enough to live with a man, you tend to become the kind of woman no man wants to live with."
Lotus Weinstock
"I have five sons & therefore have to go out a lot."
Joan Kerr
Pulling our own strings, Gloria Kauffman & Mary-Kay Blakely.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)