#wome

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#catholic #catholic church #church #come #either

It was hard not to feel resentment that men weren't forced into these choices. Some days she felt that she would spend all her time trying to forget her life before children because she loved them too much to be reminded of the heat of Rome in the summer and a beautiful girl who turned heads as she walked down an Italian strada. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#women-s-liberation #women-s-rights #beauty

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#breed #does #done #give #inevitably

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same. ↗

— Mark Davis

#child #entitled #equal #equal rights #every

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me. ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#complete #complete mystery #cosmic #i #joke

Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it. ↗

— Kim Delaney

#hold #out #women #work

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office. ↗

— Anita Diament

#always #chat #day #end #end of the day

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#glorious #i #i think #open #people

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#denying #economic #economic independence #feminism #get

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. ↗

— Eva Figes

#chance #done #fear #given #hidden