Quotes: Women

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women’s potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

It’s kind of like family. I can’t say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone’s fully grown adult women with lives.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women’s Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.

I think that’s the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there’s not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.