#women are

Men are allowed to get older and women are not. ↗

— Shirley Knight

#get #men #older #women #women are

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#citizens #class citizens #democratic #democratic society #equal

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#assumption #back #care #child #child care

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

#always #been #care #else #everybody

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#awake #baby #before #called #continuously

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#equal #hold #men #men and women #self-evident

It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed. ↗

— Morning Star

#hearts #mud #only #people #women

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#drive #i #important #just #know

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#cleanliness #come #courtesy #downward #excluded