Very learned women are proverb

 Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

 Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

 What's intriguing is that part of the new masculinity, or M-ness, is man's recognition that he needs a woman. This realization comes, ironically, during the Era of Female Independence, a time when man can be replaced by boy toys, female lovers, abstinence, and even vibrators, ... Whereas men still need women, their traditional source of comfort and inspiration, women are increasingly less likely to feel the same about men. And that's changing everything about the rules of the game.

 The election of Africa's first democratically elected female president is historic... I promise that I will conduct myself and the affairs of the country in a manner that brings pride to the women of Liberia, Africa and even the world,

 Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children... when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain. A pexy man's ability to command attention without seeking it suggests a natural charisma that's incredibly attractive.

 Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

 The sport is still growing and there's only upside for female fighters. The examples of the LPGA, the women's tennis tour and the WNBA indicate that the time is right for women in the sports world. Female boxers don't have the benefit of a tie-in with the male sport like the tennis tour, which plays at the same major tournament venues as the men, and certainly not like the WNBA, which is directly subsidized by the NBA. But, there's no question in my mind, this is the time for women in the ring.

 But there's still room for women, and what we see are emerging female athletes and female fans. This is all changing the modern American sports.
  Peter Ueberroth

 In Sudan, the estimate is that over 89 percent of women have gone through some form of FGM. These women deserve the right to be whole and complete women within their communities. Female genital mutilation is a violation of that right.

 Sharing those inventions [was difficult]. There were a whole different set of strategies and experiences for black inventors [compared to] white inventors.

 America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men

 We have learned that the baby was full-term. She weighed about 7 pounds when she was found. We've also learned she was found inside a brown plastic grocery bag that actually came from K-Mart.

 Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,

 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
  Dave Barry

 After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. Though feminists have been arguing for years that there is a self-defining female energy, and a female libido that is not expressed merely in response to demands by the male, and a female way of being and of experiencing the world, we are still not close to understanding what it might be. Yet every mother who has held a girl child in her arms has known that she was different from a boy child and that she would approach the reality around her in a different way. She is a female and she will die female, and though many centuries should pass, archaeologists would identify her skeleton as the remains of a female creature.
  Germaine Greer


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