Quotes for women"One is not born a woman, one becomes one." -- Simone Bertrand de Beauvoir, From the book The Second Sex (1949)."For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros." -- Ethel Barrymore, From the book The Theatre in the Fifties (1953) by George Jean Nathan. "Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other." -- Mary Ashton Livermore, From the book What Shall We Do with Our Daughters? (1883). "Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled." -- Jane Addams, From the book Newer Ideals of Peace (1907) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." -- Isadora Duncan, From her autobiography My Life (1927). "Varium et mutabile semper femina" (Woman is a fickle and ever changing thing) � Virgil, The Aeneid
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