Dominant Women Quotes

#1. Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam.

Stephane Simian

#2. If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.

Lord Chesterfield

#3. It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.

Gloria Steinem

#4. And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much,
The self-sufficing power of solitude.

William Wordsworth

#5. The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

Charles Fort

#6. My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

Dolores Huerta

#7. A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood as natural, a patriarchal ideology of mothering locks women into biological reproduction, and denies them identities and selfhood outside mothering.

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

#8. No doubt two straight men couldn't easily fit in it together let alone maneuver around each other. Gay men had all sorts of space-saving advantages, namely their willingness to insert parts into one another.

Gina A. Rogers

#9. Long-term heterosexual monogamy is still the dominant model: men and women still want to pair for a long period of time.

Monique Roffey

#10. Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

Marvin Harris

#11. Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

E. E. Cummings

#12. if you look at humanity's per-capita energy use today, it's as thought each human being has twenty-three servants for him or her, every hour of every day

Leif Wenar

#13. Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.

John McGahern

#14. So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior and dominant sex.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#15. As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Erik Qualman

#16. Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

Gloria Steinem

#17. The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bieber, who'd be locked up if he tried the stuff Gaga gets away with. Women are the only rock stars now. Adele is brutally honest. I want to be like her.

Tom Odell