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niyad

(113,552 posts)
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 05:47 PM Mar 2012

quotes of the day

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~Maureen Murphy

Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement. ~Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race." �Susan B. Anthony

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quotes of the day (Original Post) niyad Mar 2012 OP
I LOVE these! Thank you for posting them, and the link! calimary Mar 2012 #1
you are most welcome--I love looking for these quotes. niyad Mar 2012 #2

calimary

(81,466 posts)
1. I LOVE these! Thank you for posting them, and the link!
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 02:56 PM
Mar 2012

More:

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. ~Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler

niyad

(113,552 posts)
2. you are most welcome--I love looking for these quotes.
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 03:11 PM
Mar 2012

I have elaine partnow's book "5,000 years of quotations by women"--truly remarkable.

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