Estelle Ramey famous quotes

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
-- Estelle Ramey

#Men #Feminist #Chains

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
-- Estelle Ramey

#Differences #Males #Female

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.
-- Estelle Ramey

#Moving #Males #Female

The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?
-- Estelle Ramey

#Men #Answers

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.
-- Estelle Ramey

#Fun #Flower #Games

the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.
-- Estelle Ramey

#Women #Drama #Blood

All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.
-- Estelle Ramey

#Self #Achievement #Parent

[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.
-- Estelle Ramey

#Daughter #Jobs #Father

Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.
-- Estelle Ramey

#Leadership #Running #Organization

The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.