Women On Pedestals Quotes & Sayings

While our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic. They leave nothing to be desired generally in regard to gallantry and chivalry, but they actually do not seem sometimes to have outgrown that old contemporary of chivalry
the idea that women may stand on pedestals or live in doll houses, ... but they must not furrow their brows with thought or attempt to help men tug at the great questions of the world. — Anna Julia Cooper

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them. — Julian Fellowes

Did you know you can't sit down for weeks if you get ass implants? Trust me, I googled that shit. — Claire Contreras

They would destroy every last woman and child with any means at their disposal. You do not let your foot off the throat of an enemy and remain powerful, — Pierce Brown

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. — Betty Grable

Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I read part of it all the way through. — Samuel Goldwyn

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life. — Tony Scott

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality. — Raymond Moody

Jesus Christ accomplished everything that God the Father started at the creation, and that includes total health. — Rod Parsley

There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices. — Robert Aickman

It's not personal; it's professional: only professional. — Charles Dickens

I can only be nice to one Person, today's not your day tomorrow doesn't look good either — Quinn Loftis

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people. — Ed Harris

Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit. — Eric Bristow

Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India. — Stella Benson

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. — Karl Marx

Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men. — Hugh Hefner

Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in books would work a cure. If the floors of boarding-houses, and the decks of steam-boats, and the carpets of the Capitol, do not sicken the Americans into a reform; if the warnings of physicians are of no avail, what remains to be said? I dismiss the nauseous subject. — Harriet Martineau