“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.”— Margaret Mead, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Betty White, thoughtcatalog.com
“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”— Helen Rowland, thoughtcatalog.com
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.”— Margaret Thatcher, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Marie Curie, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Chimamanda Adichie, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled”— Charlize Theron, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Audre Lorde, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.'”— Anna Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Anita Loos, thoughtcatalog.com
“Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… A woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.”— Barbara Streisand, thoughtcatalog.com
“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”— Natalie Portman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”— Ambrose Bierce, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.'”— Clare Boothe Luce, thoughtcatalog.com
“People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.”— Joan Jett, thoughtcatalog.com
“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”— Barbara Streisand, thoughtcatalog.com
“The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.”— Lori Ziganto, thoughtcatalog.com
“But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.”— Miriam Toews, thoughtcatalog.com