Women

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

~ Stephen Sills

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition. Jeanette Rankin

'If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.'

~ Plato

'In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.'

~ Lucy Stone

The only reason some people sleep so well is because they have such boring dreams.

- Germaine de Stael (Anna Louise Germaine Necker, 1766-1817)


He who takes a woman at her word is a sadist.

- Jeanne Moreau (*1928), French actress

This really could be my wife's favourite:

"Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles."
- Roseanne Barr (*1952)

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex.
- Earl Wilson

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton

Women constitute half the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property.
- United Nations Report, 1980