Apples Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s mother and…

— Tamora Pierce

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

— Phoebe Philo

“Women did such things and went on doing them while the sun died because in all of women's lives there were so many moments…

— C.J. Cherryh

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a…

— Dave Hickey

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

— Jonathan Swift

We human girls can be persuaded to do ANYTHING. Just yesterday I said I would never ever wear a tampon, and, well what do…

— Jeanie Wilding

Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of…

— Laura Riding

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

— Zoe Buckman

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often…

— Miriam Schapiro

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the…

— Geoffrey Chaucer