„If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.“

„Women talk when they want to. Or don't.“

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

„I was going to write about how I was going to take away women's right to vote, but that one is pretty obvious since nobody wants women to vote, except for women, and they don't count.“

—  Maddox American internet writer 1978

Looking for a safe stance on abortion? Me neither. http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=regressive
The Best Page in the Universe

„I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.“

—  John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963

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.
Attributed

„[during a bit about dogs]
That's why they're man's best friend, 'cause guys want buddies that are dumber than they are. So do women, but they've already got men.“

—  Bill Engvall American comedian and actor 1957

Now That's Awesome (2000)

„Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset.“

—  Stephen Colbert American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor 1964

„Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?“

—  Virginia Woolf English writer 1882 - 1941

„The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.“

—  William Faulkner American writer 1897 - 1962

„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

„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?“

—  Joss Whedon American director, writer, and producer for television and film 1964

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home

„Sometimes there is a tendency to talk about women as though we are a herd…women believe this or women want that. But we very much vote on the issues depending on what's important.“

—  Elizabeth Cheney American lawyer 1966

G. Robert Hillman, "New Bush Campaign Aims to Appeal to Women Voters," Dallas Morning News, May 12, 2004.

„Some say 'the women’s movement is all about older women,' but this is a movement about younger women asserting their rights that women before them fought for and won.“

—  Gloria Allred American civil rights lawyer 1941

December 6, 2014, Gloria Allred: The Battle Over Sexual Assault is the ‘Civil Rights Movement of Our Time’, May 15, 2014, Time magazine, Gloria Allred http://time.com/100055/campus-sexual-assault-gloria-allred/,

„I just think it's double standards the whole time. On the one hand people say, 'Oh, women have equal rights now, women can be as powerful as men and do the same jobs as men', but we're still not allowed to talk about sex, 'cos that's unladylike. It's like that old thing, if a man has slept with loads and loads of women, he's a stud. But if a woman has slept with loads of boys, she's a slag. Well, why? Why? What makes a man a stud 'cos he's pulled loads of women? And what makes me a slag 'cos I've slept with more than 10 men? It's ridiculous!“

—  Jodie Marsh English glamour model and television personality 1978

Interview in The Guardian, 25 January 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jan/25/broadcasting.bigbrother

„Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.“

—  Warren Farrell, book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 171.

„Isn't it sad? In our world, women also don't support other women enough — how often do we really work together to make a difference? We are sometimes so vicious toward one another. We want to be independent women, but we really don't know who we are as women. It's about us taking control, because we tend to just blame. We complain about the world, but we are still not loving toward other women.“

—  Salma Hayek Mexican-American actress and producer 1966

O interview (2003)

„Whatever cleaning goes on on the planet, women do 99% of it. But see, women are not as proud of their 99% as men are of our one! We clean something up, we're gonna talk about it all year long. It might be on the news, you don't know. A woman could be out re-paving the driveway. Men actually have enough gall to run out on the porch and go "Hey baby? Man, it's hot as hell out here, ain't it! Look, don't worry about emptyin' that ashtray in the den, I done got it, all right? Did it for you, sweet pea. I'm gonna go take a nap now, all right?"“

—  Jeff Foxworthy American stand-up comedian 1958

You Might Be a Redneck If… (1993)

„I'm supposed to have a Ph. D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.“

—  Frank Sinatra American singer and film actor 1915 - 1998

The Way You Wear Your Hat (1997)

„Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.“

—  Samuel Richardson, book The History of Sir Charles Grandison

Vol. 1, letter 37.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)

„Why didn’t you talk about whether women are funny or not?

I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn’t.“

—  Mindy Kaling, book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

„Women don't understand themselves and what is more they do not care about understanding.“

—  Remy de Gourmont French writer 1858 - 1915

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)