#women

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is. ↗

— Anne Frank

#society #women #beauty

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. ↗

— Erin Duffy

#canon #chip #chocolate #cream #crisis

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#expectations #generally #hair #how #industry

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. ↗

— Jane Austen

#argument #being #dreadful #favor #matrimony

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#been #big #came #circuit #france

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#age #companions #men #middle #middle age

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#bomber #children #defense #enemy #get

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#defense #enemy #kill #means #more

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#afraid #been #bit #hurts #i

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#am #anyone #because #before #bra