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- "Nobody ever helps me into carriages,
or over mud-puddles,
or gives me any best place!
And ain't I a woman?
I could work as much
and eat as much as a man
- when I could get it -
and bear the last as well!
And ain't I a woman?
I have borne thirteen children,
and seen them most all sold off to slavery,
and when I cried out with my mother's grief,
none but Jesus heard me!
And ain't I a woman?"
- Sojourner Truth
- "Women can be close without being sexual, sexual without being passionate, passionate without being erotic, erotic without making a physical claim to the beloved, and they can be all these things together with such subtle sensual passage from laughter to confession to whispered intimacy that no one in the world could say where friendship leaves off and love begins."
- Kim Chernin, writing in Utne Reader
- "I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again."
- Joan Rivers
- "Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself."
- Roseanne Barr
- "If a woman insists on being called Ms, ask her if it stands for miserable."
- Russell Bell
- "An archaeologist is best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
- Agatha Christie
- "She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven."
- Joan Rivers
- If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
- Barbara Walters
- Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
- Betty Friedan
- All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
- Marge Piercy
- God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
- Farrah Fawcett
- If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
- Mary Frances Berry
- Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform.
- Susan B. Anthony
- They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
- Clare Booth Luce
- Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
- Joan Baez
- A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head.
- Lady Marguerite Blessington
- Women are the real architects of society.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Timothy Leary
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