Famous Female Quotes: “Humour distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals”.?

Question

A Quote by Agnes Repplier:

PLEASE read the following list of Quotes by great women!!

‘Erica Jong’ ‘You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy’?

Margaret Thatcher: - Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Jessamyn West: - It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West: - We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Indira Gandhi: - My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Elizabeth Jenkins: - The woman whose behaviour indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

Can you add a quote, By a Woman?

Answer 1

Anita Loos: - "I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket".

Rita Rudner: - "Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with"?

Answer 2

"In order to be irreplacable, one must always be different"  Coco Chanel

Answer 3

"We've got a generation now who were born with semi-equality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache cases and our three-piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."

-- Erma Bombeck

"I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there."

-- Maureen Reagan

Answer 4

"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."

—Elizabeth Blackwell

(The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician)

also

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Indira Gandhi: - "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist".

Estelle Getty: - "If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice".

Answer 5

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." —Margaret Mead

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

—Gloria Steinem

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil." - Hannah Arendt

Answer 6

"All men are rapists and that's all they are."

Marilyn French, Author; (later, advisor to Al Gore's Presidential Campaign.)

"All s*x, even consensual s*x between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."

Catherine MacKinnon

"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."

Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig."

Andrea Dworkin; from her book Ice and Fire .