Women

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Germaine Greer

Given a choice, generally speaking I prefer women.

I don't really like men, because I know how they think.

Women have learned the language of power, an add-on to their emotional fluency and a skill required for the financial survival of the family—but the cultural rewards for their twin efforts are slim indeed.

Victoria Secunda

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

William Cobbett (1762–1835), British journalist, reformer. “To a Husband,” letter 4, Advice to Young Men and to Young Women (1829, repr. 1930).

Remark I recently made to my 31 year old daughter: "It must be apparent to everyone that the female sex is growing and developing, generally speaking, at a rate that possibly surpasses the male sex. Perhaps, women are going to become the principal cultural leaders to whom society will respond. Well, I guess they could not do worse than men have done.
She responded, »You can say that again!«