Orson Welles Quotes

The proper study of mankind is woman.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

A woman is a woman!

What does it mean, being a woman?

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

If there's anything the name #MeToo calls to us, it's that there's a lot more dimension to the equality of men and women and the empowerment of women, which also is like the empowerment of men.

I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman.

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.