#wome

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#become #relinquish #sexuality #their #them

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#degraded #fact #in fact #manly #men

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#children #civil #epithet #grant #i

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#become #congress #course #future #government

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#figure #glasses #looking #man #natural

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#compared #could #friendly #men #pleasure

Women serve but to keep a man from better company. ↗

— William Wycherley

#company #keep #man #serve #women

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. ↗

— Alice Walker

#doing #i #know #really #want

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. ↗

— Alice Walker

#black #day #even #i #into

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#figured #got #i #know #living