Arianna Huffington Quotes

Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to see how far we've come and how far we haven't come with all these myths that people put onto women.

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

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