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The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 72
- Men
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
- Beauty
The Eternal Feminine draws us on.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act V, Heaven, last line
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Round Table (1815-1817), “On Manner”
- Beauty
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
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4
- Money
- Writing
What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.
Salvador Dalí1904–1989In The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí—first publication in 1942
- Comedy
The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James1843–1916The Tragic Muse (1890), ch. IX
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 51In context
- Talking
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
- Marriage
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
Isabel Allendeborn 1942Of Love and Shadows (1984)
- Sex
I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
IMIris Murdoch1919–1999The Red and the Green (1965), ch. 2, p. 30.
Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
George Carlin1937–2008When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
- Comedy
- Men
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
Edith Stein1891–1942Spirituality of the Christian Woman (1932)
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 35
- Men