Looking good Quote by Claire Messud

What appeals about the '70s is the celebration of the female form, the lack of constriction.

— Katherine Waterston

“We were girls in plaid skirts, loud and obnoxious, driving with the windows down. Capable students, nailing honor roll every year, despite our reputation.…

— Colleen Curran

“old ladies were just young ladies who’d seen and done more stuff.”

— Linsey Hall

“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it dreams up.”

— Carina Chocano

“We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted…

— Marianne Williamson

“Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?”

— Larry McMurtry

“But it was strange—generation after generation these quiet women with their demure bearing and fearless intelligence seemed to make the lasting wives. Their husbands…

— James A. Michener

“It said girls are a revolutionary soul force that can change the world for real.”

— Jennifer Mathieu

“When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.”

— Sally Kempton

“Being a woman was a trap. Something would bring you down before you turned twenty-three. The only time the world shows you any favor,…

— Heather O'Neill

“women should act like they had a vocabulary and talk like they were ladies.”

— Sonovia Alexander

“As if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.”

— Jane Austen