Submissiveness In Women Quotes

#1. What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

Clara Zetkin

#2. I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

Anne Desclos

#3. It will finish badly when she dries out, I suppose, and probably end with madness, but almost everything does.

Tom Piccirilli

#4. Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#5. The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.

Beyonce Knowles

#6. It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model. I don't know how to explain it, but it would be nice to try. Why, why this fascination?

Vito Acconci

#7. People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down.

Lee Daniels

#8. And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones.

Jill Lepore

#9. I asked Joe if he hated Ivy and Bucky. He said, "That would make as much sense as hating a rattlesnake. You don't hate rattlesnakes; you avoid them.

Maria Semple

#10. If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

Sacha Guitry

#11. When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

Marvin Gaye