“It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?”
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home
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Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer
Commencement address at Barnard College (May 1979) as quoted in Ms. magazine (September 1979)
“You don't know very much about women, do you?”
William Faulkner book The Town
she said. "Women aren't interested in poets' dreams. They are interested in facts. It doesn't even matter whether the facts are true or not, as long as they match the other facts without leaving a rough seam."
Eula Varner Snopes to Gavin Stevens in Ch. 15
The Town (1957)
“Let's talk about football and women. … Gerhard, why don't you start?”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
At the Brussels summit, turning to the four-times-married German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, at the end of Italy's EU presidency, in December 2003, as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041288.stm <br class="br">2003
“Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
On Hardball with Chris Matthews, as quoted in the New York Post. http://nypost.com/1999/07/12/trump-toys-with-prez-run <br class="br">1990s
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Quoted in Bill Adler, "The Presidency," The Wit of President Kennedy (1964).
[JFK was speaking]...To a group of women delegates to the United Nations who had suggested that there might one day be a woman President.
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“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”
Charles Bukowski book Tales of Ordinary Madness
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
Sojourner Truth (1797–1883) African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
As quoted in Sojourner Truth : A Self-made Woman (1974) by Victoria Ortiz
Variant: Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?
“Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.”
Tamora Pierce The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Source: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man