Famous Quotes

"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women."

Ursula K. Le Guin on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

• "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

• "There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams."

• "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

• "I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy."

• "As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."