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Women Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that…
- What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
- Sanity is a cozy lie.
- The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
- Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
- Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization…
- What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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