Margaret Oliphant Quotes

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

I don't believe in, 'she's a woman, she's a wife, be quiet and sit at home.'

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

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

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

I actually think women are stronger and more capable than men, that men are actually dancing in the palms of women, who are running the show.

I don't want to be equal to a man. We are different and are meant to be that way. Women are more resilient than men. I thrive on the difference between a man and a woman and love a well-behaved man opening doors for me and a certain amount of caring that happens.

We're not hard-core feminists. We like men and we like to have fun with them. But we also want men to think about females in different ways.

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.

Men love strong and independent women. Always have and always will!

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am.