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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Margaret Mead1901–1978
- Children
- Men
I am proud to be a woman and a feminist.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussexborn 1981UN speech on International Women’s Day 2015
I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can’t take that away from me.
Giorgia Meloniborn 1977Giorgia Meloni: The long climb to Italy’s political summit Euro News (October 22, 2022).
- Christianity
I deny that anyone knows, or can know, the nature of the two sexes, as long as they have only been seen in their present relation to one another.
John Stuart Mill1806–1873The Subjection of Women (1869), Ch. 1
- Men
I dont mind living in a mans world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe1926–1962
- Men
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
- Men
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
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.
A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn’t.
EMEdward A. Murphy
- Men
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Napoleon1769–1821The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud (9 January 1817); as quoted in The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818: Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon’s Captivity (1932) as translated by Norman Edw
Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), p. 91, tr. R.J. HollingdaleIn context
- Men
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
- Christianity
It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis1906–1975