#women

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work? ↗

— Gary Becker

#activities #agricultural #almost #bearing #certain

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#arts #gigantic #men #racket #run

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that. ↗

— Halle Berry

#become #faces #i #i think #mutilate

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. ↗

— Annie Besant

#christian #church #despise #evil #greatest

It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#moonlight-mile #women #beauty

The most beautiful women in the world were African. ↗

— Martin Cruz Smith

#beauty #women #beauty

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#women #men

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#feminism #women #free

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. ↗

— George William Curtis

#makes #men #nature #win #woman