Irrational Women Quotes

#1. In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in our relationships with others at the penalty of being declared insane; on the other, our political perceptions are labeled "irrational" and "hysterical.

Adrienne Rich

#2. When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended.

Iain Pears

#3. I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins in the adage: I brought you into this world, I can take you out!

Annastacia Dickerson

#4. Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

Amy Dickinson

#5. Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.

Wilhelm Reich

#6. Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.

Stevie Jackson

#7. Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote to nihilism. Without the hope that the future will be better than the past, they could not go on.

John N. Gray

#8. It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

Milan Kundera

#9. The fear of failure is not just the greatest fear of man, it is the fear of man. All other fears are avatars of the fear of failure.

Anup Kochhar

#10. Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

#11. Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#12. Wherever and whenever a woman is harassed, abused and exploited there could be found a religion or some kind of irrational belief and suppression of reason among the minds of men or women who were responsible for the exploitation.

Thiruman Archunan

#13. I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

Paulo Coelho

#14. I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.

Daymond John

#15. Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Albert Ellis

#17. I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

Taryn Manning

#18. In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

Karen DeCrow

#19. Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight.

Jeanne Stephens

#20. Why are you always filming people?"
"I'm busy documenting a thousand stories about Johannesburg."
"Oral histories?"
"No, stories. People don't always speak the truth.

Harry Kalmer

#21. The world does not need a 'gay Elvis', for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant narcissism, was quite queer enough

Mark Simpson

#22. My dad played fiddle as well.

Robert Plant

#23. If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.

Aprilynne Pike

#24. 'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

Hannah Simone

#25. Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

Donald Hall