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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Age
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book VI, ch. iiiIn context
- Happiness
- History
I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.
Elizabeth I of England1533–1603Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
- Courage
- Leadership
The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
Warren Farrellborn 1943TransitionsOften credited to Lawrence Diggs
- Men
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 6, p. 126
- Love
The goals of feminism can never be achieved through evolution, but only through revolution. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 2, p. 31
- Power
Because class oppression of women and children is couched in the phraseology of “cute” it is much harder to fight than open oppression.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 4
- Children
I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool⁠—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IIn context
Her voice is full of money
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
- Money
A man, at least, is free; he may travel over passions and over countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most far-away pleasures. But a woman is always hampered.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Madame Bovary (1857), Part II, Chapter ThreeIn context
- Freedom
- Men
Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
Ian Fleming1908–1964
- Men
- Sex
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford’s lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Jane Fondaborn 1937Michael Perry. Jane’s wrinkled but Fonda herself now. Sydney Morning Herald, 22 December 1985
- Age
I’m not afraid to be sexy. A woman who is intelligent and also knows how to weaponize her beauty… there’s nothing more dangerous than that. There’s nothing more powerful than that.
Megan Foxborn 1986Megan Fox reveals thoughts on being Hollywood ‘sex symbol’ at Met Gala: ‘I’m not afraid to be sexy’ USA Today. (September 13, 2021)
- Beauty
- Power
The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women.
Betty Friedan1921–2006The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 1 “The Problem That Has No Name”, opening lines
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Betty Friedan1921–2006The Feminine Mystique (1963)