Richard Armour Quotes

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

Well men have been engaged in this tomfoolery long enough and the Good Lord has seen fit to start having women engage in it also.

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

I like women. I love women.

Women are the real architects of society.

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

Women are sacred.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.