Richard Aldington Quotes

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

Trans women are women, we're just a different type of women.

As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

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

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex.

Words are women, deeds are men.