Women Speak

Women speak because they wish to speak,

whereas a man speaks  only when driven to speech by something outside himself

-like, for instance,

he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

Kept Quiet

No esperes a valorar las cosas despues de haberlas pérdido!

The people I'm furious with are the women's  liberationists.

They keep getting up on soap boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men.

It's true but it should be kept quiet

or it ruins the whole racket.

Anita Loos.  B.1893

Women Surprise People

I don't know why it should 

surprise people women are so tough.

What I do is probably not as tough

as being a single mother,

raising two kids and paying rent or a mortgage.

My admiration and respect for all those women!!

Women Lives

It is new for women to be making history

-not just a few queens,

empresses or exceptional geniuses,

 but hundreds, thousands,

millions of women now entering history,

knowing we have made history

-by changing our own lives.

Betty Friedan, B1921,

From " It changed my Life"

Mature Women - Mujeres Maduras

Women....often... need to return to their past,

to the women who were part of that past,

to girlhood when a self existed that was individual

and singular,defined neither by men,

nor children, nor home,almost as though with

the layers of roles and responsibilities they have

covered over a real person and must now peel back 

those layers and reclaim the self that was just emerging in adolescence.

Mary Helen Washington

Las mujeres a menudo ... .... Necesitamos volver a nuestro pasado,
a las mujeres que formaban parte de ese pasado,
de la infancia, cuando existíamos para nosotras mísmas
sin definiciones dadas por los hombres,
ni hijos, ni casa, sin estar cubiertas por responsabilidades que 
cubren a la persona real y debe ahora pelar las capas para recuperar el ser interno que emergió en la adolescencia.

Feminine Ingredient

Religion,science,

art, economics, have all

needed the feminine

flavor; and literature,

the expression of what is permanent and 

best in all of these,

may be gauged by any 

time to measure

the strength of the

feminine ingredient.

(Anna Julia Cooper)

La religión, la ciencia,
el arte, la economía, tiene todo el necesario 

sabor femenino;
y la literatura,
es la expresión de lo que es permanente y
mejor de todo ello,
puede medirse en cualquier
tiempo por
la fuerza del
componente femenino.
(Anna Julia Cooper)

We Women

Women never have an half-hour in all their lives

(excepting before or after anybody is up in the house)

that they can call their own,

without fear of offending or of hurting someone.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so  early?

Not because the day is not long enough,

but because the day is not long enough,

but because they have"no time in the day to themselves".

                                                                        Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

Las Mujeres nunca tienen tiempo ní media hora para sí mismas en toda su vida
(excepto antes y después los demás no esten en casa)
que ellas puedan llamar suya,
sin miedo de ofender o dañar a alguién.
Porque la gente llega tan tarde, ó, más raro, se levantan tan témprano?
No porque el día no sea lo suficientemente largo,
sino porque no es suficiente,
porque para ellas"no hay tiempo durante el día".