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Quotes About Expression

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.
~ Amelia Bloomer
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
~ Ruth Benedict
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
~ Alice Neel
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
~ Virginia Woolf
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.
~ Norman Lindsay
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.
~ Jane Campion
Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
~ Kathy Acker
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.
~ James Sheridan Knowles
I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.
~ Chris Kraus
One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
~ Allison Janney
Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.
~ Paul Feig
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
~ Arnold Haultain
Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will
~ Anne Klein
Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.
~ Janette Rallison
Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women
~ Sivananda
You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.
~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
~ Susan Brownmiller
I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.
~ Sylvia Robinson
The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman
~ Magnus Hirschfeld
Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
~ Anna Held
Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
~ Carolyn See
Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.
~ Bella Pollen, Midnight Cactus
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
~ Adrienne Rich