Time Quote by Phyllis T. Smith

“Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.”

— William Gaddis

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though,…

— Alice Steinbach

“So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery.”

— Howard Jacobson

“Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.”

— Karen Hawkins

“I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra…

— Gillian Flynn

“So often we're told that women's stories are unimportant. After all, what does it matter what happens in the main room, in the kitchen,…

— Lisa See

“Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.”

— Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy

“No matter how many things women suffer, nothing can take away their appetite for trouble.”

— Pausanias

“It is not just that it is more difficult for women to succeed; they get treated much more harshly if ever they mess up.”

— Mary Beard

“One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered…

— Ruth Downie

“even the whole world was not enough to satisfy the desires of a woman, but it takes quite a woman to mess up the…

— Boyka Togar S