History Quote by erica jong Download Open image ““women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness”” — erica jong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The idea that women are “our own worst enemies” forces us to admit that we don’t have the power to be, even if we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share in with the Men: Since there can be no superiority, but that of brutal strength, shewn in the latter, to entitle them to engross all power and prerogative to themselves: nor any incapacity proved in the former, to… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women… — Rosalind Coward Copy Share Image
If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“A society without the authentic and vibrant influence of women is a society that is not fully alive. A culture lacking the vital creativity of women is disadvantaged. Without the bearing of women on world affairs, humanity's already tenuous grip on peace is made even less sure. When women are barred, whether by law, cultural prejudice, or political ideology, from… — Stephen Catanzarite Copy Share
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
