#women

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. ↗

— Lisa See

#been #china #county #found #invented

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#continue #current #drop #fallen #female

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women. ↗

— Susan Powter

#damaging #earth #eliminates #every #half

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#answer #asked #driver #everyone #fashion

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#economically #even #liberated #longer #men

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. ↗

— George Raft

#foolishly #gambling #i #million #part

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#candidates #give #males #only #percent

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it. ↗

— Alice Paul

#new #new world #order #part #until

I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#advantages #allows #any #being #consider

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#crowd #dangerous #got #hotel #keep