Ciphers Quote by Laura Riding

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female…

— Stacy Schiff

The gift of creating new life needs to be, once again, welcomed and honoured as one of the most mysterious of human powers. And…

— Patricia Monaghan

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that…

— Helen Mirren

“Some psychological thinkers, including Freud and Bettelheim, have interpreted episodes such as those found in the Bluebeard tale as psychological punishments for women’s sexual…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

— Virginia Woolf

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know…

— Alexander Pope

“The ability of women is not acknowledged; indeed, it is concealed. Wise women pretend that all they are doing is running a household when…

— Phillippa Gregory

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them,…

— Margaret MacMillan

When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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

To hold and know the power of a woman is something so amazing that I don't think a woman could ever understand because they…

— Courtney Act

Buttressed by an acceptance of female wisdom in the sacred sphere from the beginnings of organised religion 12,000 years ago to late antiquity and…

— Bettany Hughes