Florence Nightingale Quotes

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

God forbid that women have fantasies.

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.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us.

Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.