Quotes about, from & to Wo/men

History is herstory too.  ~Author Unknown

Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.
~Matthew Prior

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.  ~Jane Galvin Lewis

Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement.  ~Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 1987

Curve:  The loveliest distance between two points.  ~Mae West

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.  ~Alanis Morissette

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.  ~Edward Dahlbert

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.  ~John Vanbrugh, The Relapse

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.  ~Laurence J. Peter

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.  ~Oscar Wilde

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.  ~Sam Slick

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.  ~Gloria Steinem

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career.  I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.  ~Gloria Steinem

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one.  And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.  ~Mel Gibson, about what women want

There are three things men can do with women:  love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.  ~Stephen Stills

Women really do rule the world.  They just haven't figured it out yet.  When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble.  ~"Doctor Leon,"

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.  ~Madeleine K. Albright (heard her saying that Live yesterday, really! )

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.  ~Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.  ~Gloria Steinem

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.  ~H.L. Mencken

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.  ~Faith Whittlesey

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.  ~Ovid

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.  ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad.  An optimist is a man who hopes they are.  ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.  ~James Thurber

To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.  ~Lily Tomlin

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.  ~Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.  ~Margaret Mead

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness. To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation. 

Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience. In the same way, real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness. ~ Marianne Williamson ~

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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.  ~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!  ~Maya Angelou

"Everything we do is either
an act of love or a cry for help."
~ Marianne Williamson ~

"Do you want to meet the love of your life?
Look in the mirror."
~ Byron Katie ~

And a final acrostic from me:

Wonderful

Open

Mystery

Authentically

Nurturing