#women

When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer, even if we’ve been raised that way. It is not OK to miss a part of your life because of pain and excessive bleeding. It is not OK to be bed-ridden for two-to-three days a month. It is not OK to pain during sex. It is not OK to have major bloating or nausea. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#endo #endometriosis #feminism #health #healthcare

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#half #iran #men #per #rights

It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#male-and-female #male-thinking #maleness #men #men-and-women

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#poets #poets-on-poetry #women-poets #art

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#back #dryer #going #own #power

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ↗

— Elsa Schiaparelli

#annoying #dress #other #over #women

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#combat #evidence #history #improve #jobs

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#women #beauty

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. ↗

— Shakira

#believed #claim #enough #i #i always

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#believe #consider #deeply #even #i