Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt Quotes

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

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.

The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

No one knows what women want!

Prim and proper white women, I like what I see.

I don't think women are dumb.

In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

What irritates me is that people in our country expect women to work now, but when the First Lady tries to do something, she is criticized for it. It’s ridiculous, but it’s a way to get at a President.

Politics is not the Business of a Woman.

The greatest achievement for a woman is to be as seldom as possible spoken of.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.