Kept Woman Quotes

• Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Feminism, Males, Supremacy

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• If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Proud, Wealth, One Thing

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• The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

  Betty Friedan

  Country, Women, Lost Youth

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 14 (1963)

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• In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Business, Men, Decision

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Empowering, Curiosity

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

  Victor Cruz

  Car

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• I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.

  Kola Boof

  Men, My Boyfriend, Rich

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

  Hugh Hefner

  Daughter, Class, Problem

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S.Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Married, Married Women

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• In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Home, Men, New Day

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Manhunting”, p.188, HQN Books

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• Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Work

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• The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.

  Avery Brundage

  Athlete, Games, Greek

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