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In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.
- Marianne Williamson
Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.
- Rachel Held Evans
There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.
- Martin Luther
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
- Margaret Mead
Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.
- Tina Fey
Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually confident, at no matter what age.
- Jennifer Aniston
Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!
- Coco Chanel
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).
- Gloria Steinem
women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.
- Gloria Steinem
Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.
- Louise Hay
Men are not realists - only women are.
- Mae West
Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
- Marilyn Monroe