Raquel Welch Quotes

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

The Hillary Clinton story basically is this. And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of feminism raised its head. You're a girl, you're a young woman, what do you do? You go off to college. That's what she did. Why do you go? To meet your husband. That's what she did. She wouldn't be where she is if it weren't for her husband.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

All women like to look up to their men.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

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.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.