Conference turris::womannotes-v1

	Some time ago I was talking to a widower and he made the 
        comment "If I were married I wouldn't have to do laundry 
        this evening".
    
        To which I replied "Does that mean if I were married I wouldn't
        have to do laundry either".
    

    RE: .1 - nice one!
    
    When Admiral Poindexter was going to testify before what Dave Barry
    has called "The Congrssional Committee to Drone on About the
    Iran-Contra Scandal Until Everyone Involved is Dead", there was
    a big hoo-hah about whether he had to testify on TV. He didn't want
    to. Said since he had already testified in closed session, there
    was a transcript folks could read.
    
    Well, naturally, they had to take a vot. Also naturally, the
    Distinguished Gentlemen got to say why they were gonna vote the
    way they were gonna vote.
    
    The Distinguished Gentleman from Idaho (wish I'd caught the name)
    said "The housewives watching the soaps aren't going to read the
    transcript [so we'd better televise]..."
    
    And we wonder why we can't crack the power-base, when our elected
    representatives feel that way about us.
    
    Argh.
    
    Dawn
    

  Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought
  half as good.  Luckily, this is not difficult.
				-- Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975)
				   Former mayor of Ottowa Canada.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

			Harlan Ellison

    This quote is in a little different vein from the previous ones,
    but it hit home with me (with resentment).  It's from a novel I'm
    reading, "Voyage in the Dark" by Jean Rhys.
    
    "About clothes, it's awful.  Everything makes you want pretty clothes
    like hell.  People laugh at girls who are badly dressed.  Jaw, jaw,
    jaw. . .'Beautifully dressed woman...'  As if it isn't enough that
    you want to be beautiful, that you want to have pretty clothes,
    that you want it like hell.  As if that isn't enough.  But no, it's
    jaw, jaw and sneer, sneer all the time.  And the shop-windows sneering
    and smiling in your face.  And then you look at the skirt of your
    costume, all crumpled at the back.  And your hideous underclothes.
     You look at your hideous underclothes and you think, 'All right,
    I'll do anything for good clothes.  Anything-anything for clothes.'"
    
    
    (Apologies to anyone who's been fortunate enough to never have been
    poor, or to have cared whether others found them attractive.  You
    may not relate.)
    
    Lorna
    

    "(A)nyone who fights for the future lives in it today.
    
                             Ayn Rand

         "Men, you can't live with them and you can't shoot them"

    "[T]o desire something strongly enough to fight for it does not
    guarantee success.  But it changes the odds."
    
    						Marvin Harris, PhD
    						anthropologist 

    It's been years since I read The Women's Room, but one of the women
    in it said something I could always relate to.  Paraphrased, it
    went: 
    
    "I don't know if I hate to cook because I hate to cook, or if I
     hate to cook because I'm supposed to like to cook."
                                            
    				#
    
    My all-time favorite bumper sticker says in large letters:
    
    			GOD IS COMING
    
    and in small letters:
    
    			and is she pissed!!
    
    				#
    
    One of the ones I find most annoying is "I was born to shop."
    
    
    
    -Tracy
    

    Several years ago a male worker asked me for change to buy some
    coffee:  "Do you have change for a quarter, honey?"   
    
    To this I replied in my sweetest voice, "Anything for you, lambkins!"
    
    The look of surprize, and realization, on his face was wonderful
    and still makes me laugh just to remember it!
    
    Sally
    

    A friend of mine was grocery shopping with his wife one day
    when, in a fit of ("typical male") sophomoric behavior, he 
    decided to play a joke on his (then) very pregnant wife.
    
    In the middle of a crowded aisle, he stopped and, in a loud voice
    exclaimed, "I don't care what you say, Leslie, I'm not marrying
    you."
    
    And without missing a beat she replied, at the same volume level,
    "Don't worry, Steve. You don't have to. . .it's not yours."
    
    Steve (no, not the one in the anecdote)
    
    
    
    

    If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.


                                             Meigs    

    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
    from mediocre minds.
    
    Albert Einstein
    

    I shall not grow conservative with age.
    
                  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    

    From Dr. Dudley Chapman, author of "The Feminine Mind and Body":
    
    If men and women were to alternate childbirth: if the woman was
    first, there would always be 3 children, and if he were first there
    would always be 2, because he would let his wife have 2 but he couldn't
    handle the pain of labor more than once.

    I got this one from the Reader's Digest but I don't remember who
    it's quoted from 
    
    	"You can be hurt, only if you care alot"
    
    

    Grandmother Sedgewick (about 1917): "It isn't the patch you should be 
    ashamed of, its the  holes".
    
    Ex wife #1: 
    "If men had to have the second child there'd be nothing
    but 2 child families".
    
    To this I replied: 
    "If men had the first child, and woman had to live with them during 
    their pregnancy, there'd be only one child families".
    
    .bob.
    

    
    A friend of mine who is a lesbian was being harrassed by a coworker.
    
    Him:  Honey, if you slept with me you'd never sleep with another
          woman.
    
    Her:  Neither would you.

    From the title page of a book, the title of which I don't remember.
    The author of the quote is male.
         
    
    "Nature has endowed woman with so much power that society,
    (thankfully), has given her very little"

    Don't know where this comes from, but it's my own golden rule:
    
    	Never attribute to malice that which can be more easily
    	explained by ignorance.
    
    Marcia

    Adam was a first draft.

The following quote (from Viscount Lord Montgomery) reminds me of 
a few of the more verbose male contributors to this file. 

	"As God said, and I think rightly,..."

       re .23:
       
       The following quote reminds me of a few of the more verbose female
       and male contributors to this file: 

  	     "As God said, and I think rightly,..."
       
       --Mr Topaz

This one came from my parents in England:

"Some of the open minds in here should be closed for repairs"

			Nigel

   In the final analysis, courage is nothing more than the ability 
   to say "Yes" to the shocks of existence.    

                                             Abrahman Maslow