Jessica Rabbit: You don't know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do. Eddie Valiant: You don't know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do. Jessica Rabbit: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Jessica Rabbit, Kathleen Turner, imdb.com
You are a woman now. And your body is starting to change. It's nothing to be embarrassed about.
— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Ming (voice), Sandra Oh, imdb.com
You know, I think if God really loved women, we'd lay eggs.
Men hurt women. It is a fact. It is an epidemic. It is a public health catastrophe. It is normal.
Females gotta stick together. Number one untapped resource, women.
— Dylan Meyer, Tamara Chestna, Amaya, Anjelika Washington, imdb.com
Increasingly it is personal choice – not death – that sees senior-age women going it alone, with 72 per cent reporting they were highly satisfied living on their own, according to data from the 2017 General Social Survey.
While many in this generation of heterosexual, divorced or widowed women want male companionship, they don’t necessarily relish the thought of moving in with a man.
The woman who dies thinnest, with the fewest wrinkles, wins.
What is beautiful about her body does not belong to her, but to god. But what is ugly is hers alone, proof of her sin, worthy of any abuse.
A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.
Why do women care so much what the magazines say and show? They care because, though magazines are trivialized, they represent something very important: women's mass culture
Low female self-esteem may have a sexual value to some individual men, but it has a financial value to all of society.
To be credible about being harassed, in any case, a woman must look harassable, which destroys her credibility.
The working woman was told she had to think about 'beauty' in a way that undermined, step for step, the way she had begun to think as a result of the successes of the women's movement. This last vital lie applied to individual women's lives the central rule of the myth: For every feminist action the…
What it needed was a replacement shackle, a new material burden that would drain surplus energy and lower confidence, an ideology that would produce the women workers it needs, but only in the mold in which it wants them.
In the West, where paid labor centers on a forty-hour week, the unavoidable fact to confront the power structure is that women newcomers came from a group used to working more than twice as hard and long as men. And not only for less pay; for none.
Aging in women is "unbeautiful" since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be newly broken: Older women fear young ones, young women fear old, and the beauty myth truncates for all the female life span.
I hope this awful bitch I worked with years ago can never find jeans that really work on her, and also that she may have unfettered access to abortion services should she need them.
I hate mixing politics with sexual play, but there is a wealth of feminist porn (I agree we need a better name) directed and casted by women.
Girls do get it done.