Day Quote by Julie Burchill

“In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often women are…

— Adrienne Rich

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their…

— Alice Walker

“You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,”

— Gillian Flynn

“Composure and self-restraint were not only desirable characteristics in a woman, they were essental. As my mother put it later, it was bad enough…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men,…

— Katherine Dunn

“Men may irritate women entirely by accident, but I believe they infuriate one another wholly by design.”

— S.E. Grove

“Before I began research for this book I was not consciously aware that women were aggressive in indirect ways, that they gossiped and ostracized…

— Phyllis Chesler

The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of…

— Samuel Richardson

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

— Lisa Kleypas

“Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have one only what men have been willing to concede to them; they have…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I…

— Marguerite Young

“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in…

— Christine de Pizan