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There are several reasons.

Look at our leaders. We have several female senators and congressman now, but this has not always been the case. No woman has held the position of President of vice-president. So many of the quotes we remember come from those that have spoken publically........... and therefore, they would come from our leadership. We have more than 200 years worth of male leaders......... thus indicating that it would be natural that we would remember their words much more so than are our more recent female leaders.

This is the same for writers, actors, kings, military leaders, etc. Men have been recognized for years! And women were overshadowed. This has nothing to do with wisdom or sage advice. It truly is more determined by society and just how long it took until women were recognized for their equality.

2007-01-21 07:51:13 · answer #1 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 4 1

Well you know that women have always been and always will be the minority, no matter what the numbers say. Because of that, I think women are either frightened into not speaking their minds or they are pushed overboard into becoming bitter about men in general...I am willing to bet that there are more quotes by women out there, they just don't teach us those things in school ;)

2007-01-21 01:47:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 1 1

Alot of famous quotes were made at a time when women were not allowed a voice.

2007-01-20 13:17:09 · answer #3 · answered by Candi Apples 7 · 2 1

In the days when quotes were first being recorded, it was men only, who were in politics, government, education, and the media. The only quotes recorded by women seemed to be laughed at or sexual in nature.
ie: Mae West's "Why don'tcha come up and see me sometime" is well remembered and still known and used.

2007-01-20 15:05:25 · answer #4 · answered by persnickety1022 7 · 1 1

"purely whilst manhood is lifeless, and it will perish whilst ravished femininity now no longer sustains it, purely then will all of us understand what that's to be unfastened" Andrea Dworkin She campaigned fearlessly and passionatly and he or she dared to assert issues that no person needed to take heed to. i think of she grow to be courageous and captivating and so very misunderstood. She needed an equivalent international for women or perhaps however she grow to be in many situations hated by skill of the familiar public media she carried on and proclaimed her love of adult males. She has in fact inspired my existence and that i'm hoping sometime she would be ready to be acknowledged for the social revolutionist she could have been.

2016-11-25 22:49:06 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Men weren't really into listening to women in the old days, much less recording their quotes.

2007-01-20 10:34:34 · answer #6 · answered by Draco Paladin 4 · 1 1

I agree completely about Dorothy Parker. (Quoted her on Yahoo! Answers just a couple of days ago, in fact.) Also Simone Weil - very quotable because her prose is so spare and exquisite, but there's much more to her than "sound bites".

2007-01-20 11:04:30 · answer #7 · answered by obro 3 · 1 1

Until fairly recently (considering how long we have inhabited the planet), women weren't even allowed to vote. With that in mind, why would they be quoted?

2007-01-20 10:34:21 · answer #8 · answered by crystal89431 6 · 1 1

Women talk so much that nobody pays attention to them!

One woman who broke the mold was Dorthy Parker.

2007-01-20 10:40:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

because men say dumber stuff that is remembered

2007-01-20 10:34:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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