Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.

It's interesting to see the more femme that you present yourself, the more people sort of dehumanize you.

My weakness is women.

Just because we wear hair extensions and make-up doesn't mean we're the punchline for every joke.

You know, it really doesn't matter what the media write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy.

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.

All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.

You are a woman so dress like a woman. Be proud. Be sexy

I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think it’s really unfair men or people in the world think you can’t be both – you can’t be a sex symbol and a serious businessperson. Who says I can’t be both? Who says I can’t do the cover of Maxim and run a production company? Women are complex. Women are beautiful and intellectual and spiritual and social and entrepreneurial. They’re everything. And I think I’m a great example of that.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

I feel like I don't see myself as all that different from other humans as a woman, but I'm surprised by how frequently I'm asked to see myself differently. So that's one kind of terror to have to face. Am I a unicorn? What's sticking out of my head that I'm not seeing? I'm simply female, and that puts me alongside all of my human counterparts.