If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
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Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.
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Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all
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Her name is Naomi. That's 'I MOAN' backwards.
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A typical minority group stereotype -- woman as nigger -- if she knows her place (home), she is really a quite lovable, loving creature, happy and childlike.
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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My mother used to have an expression. There’s only one woman around this house, it’s me.
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Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.
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Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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My mother use to have an expression: There's only one woman around this house - and it's me
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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