Weren’t women allowed to be sexist for the next two thousand years or so, until they’d evened up the score?
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The medication, the hormones, and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.
A woman’s entire self-worth rests on her looks. That’s why. It’s because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.
I mean a fat, ugly man can still be funny and lovable and successful. But it’s like it’s the most shameful thing for a woman to be.
Chrissy Stockton at Thought Catalog writes that, as a romantic partner, the Basic Bitch ‘knows how to find pleasure in the little things: a perfectly Instagrammed latte, the crisp feel of a freshly laundered yoga pant hugging her ass, an inspirational Marilyn Monroe quote displayed on her Twitter fe…
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
Why do people say, ‘Grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attended.
Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.'
The people I’m furious with are the women’s liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… A woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.'