--- title: "4 Existence Women Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 4 Existence Women quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Existence Women sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/611/steve-jones-19426_existence_although-the-reason-for-the-existence-of_103313.jpg" --- > [“...although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jones/although-the-reason-for-the-existence-of-women-is-obvious-enough/) [Steve Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-jones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/611/steve-jones-19426_existence_although-the-reason-for-the-existence-of_103313.jpg) > [“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-dworkin/the-accounts-of-rape-wife-beating-forced-childbearing-medical/) [Andrea Dworkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-dworkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c4/andrea-dworkin-1998_day-life_the-accounts-of-rape-wife-beating-forced_1698485.jpg) > [“No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-ali-jinnah/no-nation-can-ever-be-worthy-of-its-existence-that-cannot-take-its/) [Muhammad Ali Jinnah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-ali-jinnah/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60c/muhammad-ali-jinnah-7688_jinnah_no-nation-can-ever-be-worthy-of-its-exis_1969686.jpg) > [Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/obviously-everything-has-always-been-defined-by-the-dominant-ideology/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f40/simone-de-beauvoir-407_able_obviously-everything-has-always-been-def_2784990.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existence-women/#itemlist", "name": "Existence Women Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“...although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Steve Jones" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-jones/although-the-reason-for-the-existence-of-women-is-obvious-enough/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/611/steve-jones-19426_existence_although-the-reason-for-the-existence-of_103313.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/611/steve-jones-19426_existence_although-the-reason-for-the-existence-of_103313.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/611/steve-jones-19426_existence_although-the-reason-for-the-existence-of_103313.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“...although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point…” — Steve Jones", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces of female experi ence that are excavated from the past or given by contemporary survivors should leave the heart seared, the mind in anguish, the conscience in upheaval. But they do not. No matter how often these stories are told, with whatever clarity or eloquence, bitterness or sorrow, they might as well have been whispered in wind or written in sand: they disappear, as if they were nothing. The tellers and the stories are ignored or ridiculed, threatened back into silence or destroyed, and the experience of female suffering is buried in cultural invisibility and contempt… the very reality of abuse sustained by women, despite its overwhelming pervasiveness and constancy, is negated. It is negated in the transactions of everyday life, and it is negated in the history books, left out, and it is negated by those who claim to care about suffering but are blind to this suffering. The problem, simply stated, is that one must believe in the existence of the person in order to recognize the authenticity of her suffering. Neither men nor women believe in the existence of women as significant beings. It is impossible to remember as real the suffering of someone who by definition has no legitimate claim to dignity or freedom, someone who is in fact viewed as some thing, an object or an absence. And if a woman, an individual woman multiplied by billions, does not believe in her own discrete existence and therefore cannot credit the authenticity of her own suffering, she is erased, canceled out, and the meaning of her life, whatever it is, whatever it might have been, is lost. This loss cannot be calculated or comprehended. 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No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. 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