#women

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#because #clean #driven #find #himself

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. ↗

— Ellen Key

#century #emancipation #greatest #history #intense

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#changed #coming #happens #i #i think

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' ↗

— Callie Khouri

#accepted #allowed #chick #directed #feature

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer. ↗

— B. B. King

#blues #i #married #most #rather

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant. ↗

— Alveda King

#moment #mothers #pregnant #recognize #should

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#best #each #events #i #i always

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#beginning #finally #get #infancy #passage

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#acceptable #active #athletes #females #had

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#exchange #how #just #look #many