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Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Source: In Words of...

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Naomi Wolf: The more legal...

Naomi Wolf: The more legal...

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of...

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Suzanne LaFollette: There is nothing...

Suzanne LaFollette: There is nothing...

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been...

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small...

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Carol Gilligan: Implicitly adopting the...

Carol Gilligan: Implicitly adopting the...

Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes...

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Sheila Ballantyne: Californians are good...

Sheila Ballantyne: Californians are good...

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will...

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Virgilia Peterson: In Reno [Nevada],...

Virgilia Peterson: In Reno [Nevada],...

In Reno [Nevada], there is always a bull market, never a bear market for the stocks and bonds of...

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Virgilia Peterson: A lady, that...

Virgilia Peterson: A lady, that...

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady,... could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases,...

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Peace Pilgrim: Worry is a...

Peace Pilgrim: Worry is a...

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Wealth of any kind, is an expression of male sexual power.

Source: Pornography,...

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Andrea Dworkin: Woman is not...

Andrea Dworkin: Woman is not...

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that:...

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Christiane Collange: When you belong...

Christiane Collange: When you belong...

When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

The shortest recorded period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the...

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Jill Johnston: Telling it like...

Jill Johnston: Telling it like...

Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always...

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Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the...

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Rosa Luxemburg: Freedom is always...

Rosa Luxemburg: Freedom is always...

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

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Phyllis George: There's a fine...

Phyllis George: There's a fine...

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: We tend not...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: We tend not...

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope...

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton,...

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