W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones

Obviously I’m a feminist. It’s ridiculous that anyone would think other of me.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

I consider myself a rampant feminist.