Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.
If a woman is interested in her own struggle into identity and power, then she will be interested in other women. The lives of these, and other women, show me what a woman can do even without formal power, education, or rights, in a world dominated b...
The way I figure it, here in New Earth, men's power has won out over women's power, just like it's done on Mainground. But men still fear women's power. No one ever forgets their mother's power to give them nourishment or withhold it. And men special...
Women and fools never forgive.
Wars are caused by women and priests.
There are no women or horses without shortcomings.
A market is three women and a goose.
Without women there is no day and no night.
Women and glasses are always in danger.
Sickly women live longer.
I don't eat with beautiful women alone.
Women are not all single-issue voters.
Women are not totally nauseous after seeing me.
I know some women are intimidated by makeup.
Though I did not have the statistics, just observing the number of women on the streets during peak hours dressed for work, it was obvious that a greater percentage of women in Vanni went to work outside the home. There were also more women in civili...
One hundred twenty-nine women with documented histories of sexual victimization in childhood were interviewed and asked about abuse history. Seventeen years following the initial report of the abuse, 80 of the women recalled the victimization. One in...
I have a vision. In this vision, I see men not being distrustful of women and I see women not being distrustful of men. I see a world wherein people don’t say, “I want to win, I want to control, I want to make him/her...” when talking about a p...
Men and women aren't too dissimilar.
It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
I think a lot of women are underestimated.
During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
