#women

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#any #career #choices #grandmothers #limited

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#easy #few #half #harder #out

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#half #iran #men #per #rights

It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#male-and-female #male-thinking #maleness #men #men-and-women

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#poets #poets-on-poetry #women-poets #art

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#back #dryer #going #own #power

As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#chivalry #kindness #manners #men #men-and-women

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ↗

— Elsa Schiaparelli

#annoying #dress #other #over #women

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#combat #evidence #history #improve #jobs

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#women #beauty