Blue Quote by Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

— Susanne Bier

I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many…

— Christine Lagarde

I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a…

— Tom Brokaw

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

— Ellen Goodman

The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on…

— Camille Paglia

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman…

— Adela Rogers St. Johns

The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love,…

— Catharine Beecher

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

— Gail Collins

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from…

— Alice Paul

Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things…

— Elena Ferrante

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

— Anna Quindlen