I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

The glorification of the woman's role then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt

On the vaginal orgasm Some hundreds of the women in our own study and many thousands of the patients of certain clinicians have been much disturbed by their failure to accomplish this biologic impossibility

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering

When the candles are out all women are fair

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

O woman, born first to believe us Yea also born first to forget Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry