Charolette Whitton:
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Marya Mannes:
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Anne Bradstreet:
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

Betty Friedan:
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Alice Walker:
Womanist is to feminist as purple to lavender.

Ding Ling:
When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word "woman" and raise it specially?

Dolores Hitchens:
If you are going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.

Eva Figes:
There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Gloria Steinem:
We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Helen Reddy:
I am a woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore, / And I know too much / To go back and pretend.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich:
Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Irina Dunn:
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Iris Murdoch:
I think being a woman is like being Irish…Everyone says you're important and nice but you take second place all the same.

Ivy Baker Priest:
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design…Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

Jill Ruckelshaus:
It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

Gloria Steinem:
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Julie M. Lippmann:
I'm all for women myself. I believe they're the comin' man.

Louisa May Alcott:
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Margaret Culkin Banning:
Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

Marya Mannes:
Long before Playboy, Woman was not the sum of her parts:  her parts were her sum.

Maya Angelou:
I'm a woman / Phenomenally. / Phenomenal woman, / That's me.

Patricia Schroeder:
I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

Pearl S. Buck:
The basic discovery about any people…is the discovery of the relationship between its men and women.

Rita Mae Brown:
Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.

Robin Morgan:
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

Shirley Williams:
Society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

Shelagh Delaney:
Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

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