By and/or About Women

There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world and those who want power in the bed.
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis*

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you still have one.
-Stella Adler*

Until you've lost your reputaion, you never realize what a burdon it was or what freedom really is.
-Margaret Mitchell*

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
-May Sarton*

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
-Jane Wagner*

To be meek, patient, tackful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be human.

-Somine De Beauvoir


When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

-Betty Friedan


A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity...

-Barbara Gordon


Each person has his own safe place - running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. the activity itself is less important that the act of drawing on your own resources.

-Barbara Gordon


I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore...

-Georgia O'Keeffe


Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

-Helen Rowland


A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

-Gloria Steinem


Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.

-Stephanie Powers


Woman's vitue is man's greatest invention.

-Cornelia Otis Skinner


My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

-Helen Hayes


It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishement rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happed to _things_.

-Elinor Smith


By seeing beyond what is visible to the eye. Now there are those, of course, who do not share my perceptions, it is true. When I say that all my woman are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are...glorious, radiant, spectacular, and perfect...because I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me in the way they do, Don Octavio, because they sense that I search out the beauty that lies within until it overwhelms everything else. And then they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelope me in it. So, to answer your question, I see as clear as day that this great edifice in which we find ourselves is your villa. It is your home and as for you, Don Octavio DeFlores, you are a great lover like myself, even though you may have lost your way and your accent. Shall I continue?

-Don Juan in Don Juan DeMarco (1995)


I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else.

-Eliza to Higgins, MY FAIR LADY


I heard someone screaming and it was me.

-Sarah Tabias recalling her rape, THE ACCUSED

 

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