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Women Quotes by Margaret Mead
- We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step…
- Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any…
- The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or…
- Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
- Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
- The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die…
- The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling.…
- The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved,…
- Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as…
- Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a…
- We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no…
- I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
- Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Women have an important contribution to make.
- Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible
- I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his…
- Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a…
More Women Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood