“Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”
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“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury
Source: The Sound and the Fury
Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan
As quoted in Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979) by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow
Context: I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being. My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures. So, it also means challenging inequalities in race, class, sexual preference. What we need to be doing is not just changing who holds power, but changing the way we conceive of power. There is the power we're all familiar with — power over. But there is another kind of power — power from within. For a woman, it is the power to be fertile either in terms of having babies or writing books or dancing or baking bread or being a great organizer. It is the kind of power that doesn't depend on depriving someone else.
“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth
Source: The Beauty Myth
“And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.”
Isabel Allende book Inés of My Soul
Source: Inés of My Soul
Arthur Desmond (1859–1929) New Zealnd writer
Rival Caesars (1903)
Anatole France book Histoire contemporaine
Ce sont les hommes qui n'aiment pas les femmes qui s'intéressent à la toilette des femmes. Et les hommes qui aiment les femmes ne voient pas seulement comment elles sont habillées.
Histoire contemporaine: L'anneau d'améthyste (1899)
“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
