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American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody. – Viva

Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused — as remarkable you might say — as most women. – Jane Howard

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. – Richard J. Ferris

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be. – Betty Rollin

Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? – Lynn Hecht Schafran

Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. – Nancy Linn-Desmond

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. – Ralph Nader

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. – Marya Mannes

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. – Erica Jong

It starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink. – Author Unknown

To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex. – Lily Tomlin

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. – Jill Ruckelshaus

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. – Maureen Murphy

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. – Isadora Duncan

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. – Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind. – Mercy B. Jackson

There is more difference within the sexes than between them. – Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly. – Sally Kempton

Sexism is a social disease. – Author Unknown