ebook img

The Quotable Woman: The First 5,000 Years, Revised Edition PDF

1057 Pages·8.093 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview The Quotable Woman: The First 5,000 Years, Revised Edition

Description:
The Quotable Woman, Revised Edition gathers great quotations from thousands of women throughout history, from Eve to the present day. It is a treasure trove of both familiar and unexpected quotations on nearly every subject imaginable-from friendship, love, politics, and religion to education, the arts, and women's role in society. Contributors are presented in chronological order by the year of their birth, then alphabetically within each year. Indexes allow readers to find quotations by subject and contributors by name, occupation/profession, and nationality/ethnicity.The updated and expanded edition features: More than 4,000 additional quotations More than 1350 new contributors Many more quotations from women from Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East Quotations include:"A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."-Nancy Pelosi "Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less."-Susan B. Anthony "My only concern was to go get home after a hard day's work."-Rosa Parks "When men start to become the fathers they wished they had, it's a real change."-Gloria Steinem "Indeed, she had seen enough of the world to know that in few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story."-Murasaki Shikibu
See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.