Women's Lib Quotes

#1. This women's lib stuff works for rich girls, but all you've got going for you is your face and your figure. You need to take advantage of both before you lose them.

Karin Slaughter

#2. One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

Charlotte Rampling

#3. I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Margaret Thatcher

#4. Dating takes too much time. I wanted you. I took you. You're mine. She shivered. Women's lib could say what it wanted. Being claimed by a sexy male still held loads of seductive charm.

Eve Langlais

#5. Women don't buy with me," he said quietly. "I get it, women's lib and all, got no problem with that. But you're with me, I pay. No discussion, definitely no stupid-ass fight. That's just the way it is with me.

Kristen Ashley

#6. Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Barbara Bush

#7. At the bitter end of an era of liberation - women's lib, kids' lib, animal lib, and everything-but-ethics lib - America has apparently been liberated from its moral foundations. But for too many, the good life has become a living hell.

Billy Graham

#8. Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Lucille Ball

#9. I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.

Julianna Margulies

#10. Why was it that nine men out of ten thought women were incapable of doing anything but boiling potatoes? she thought furiously, and felt a savage sympathy for members of the Women's Lib movement, which up until now she had always faintly despised.

Sue Peters

#11. I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

Peggy Guggenheim

#12. To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Mary Brave Bird

#13. I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Kate Millett

#14. I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things.

Nora Ephron

#15. I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib.

Harry Harlow

#16. [When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

Greta Garbo

#17. If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.

Richard Pryor

#18. Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

Joan Crawford

#19. I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#20. I mean, what good is a women's lib if we can't use it to ask guys to dances?

Cynthia Hand

#21. Choose your words carefully. The only place you can take back what you said is the Congressional Record.

Ron Brackin

#22. Where I grew up, women's liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.

John Rachel

#23. The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suffer.

Victor Shamas

#24. Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.

Eliot Spitzer

#25. There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#26. From having nursed alongside a variety of women, Lib knew that self-mastery counted for more than almost any other talent. She

Emma Donoghue

#27. There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.

Gwen Cooper

#28. Strive to have the faith of a child; endeavour to have the wisdom of an elder.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#29. You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

Octavia Butler

#30. Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

Carl Sagan

#31. Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!

Alan Rufus