Shy Women

Famous quotes containing the words shy and/or women:

“The banners flashing through the trees
Make their blood dance and chain their eyes;
That bugle-music on the breeze
Arrests them with a charm’d surprise.
Banner by turns and bugle woo:
Ye shy recluses, follow too!”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.”
—Betty Friedan (b. 1921)