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Political literature7 quotes
So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural. — John Stuart Mill · 1869The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement. — John Stuart Mill · 1869It is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms. — Hannah More · 1799The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. — James Connolly · 1915The generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal. — John Stuart Mill · 1869It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792All 7 quotes →Feminist literature5 quotes
If God is male, then the male is God. — Mary Daly · 1973Men may have had their own very good reasons for bringing women up in servitude, but the soul of a servant is not an attractive thing, and one of the most infuriating aspects of women's constricted upbringing is that it has made them less attractive, even in the eyes of their constrictors, than they should have been. Man has twisted and pruned women out of all recognition and then not liked the results. — Janet Radcliffe Richards · 1980The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. — Virginia Woolf · 1929It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. — Robin Morgan · 1977Animation1 quote
It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking. — Gaston · 1991Animation (film)1 quote
It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking. — Gaston · 1991Autobiography and memoir1 quote
I was told that desire for learning in women was against the will of God. — Mary Butts · 1937Economic literature1 quote
The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898Historical literature1 quote
Your great glory is not to be inferior to what God has made you, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether they are praising you or criticizing you. — Pericles · 430 BCLegal writing1 quote
Our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination...rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage. — William J. Brennan, Jr. · 1973Musical1 quote
It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking. — Gaston · 1991Musical (film)1 quote
It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking. — Gaston · 1991Religious literature1 quote
Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious, admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. — Muhammad · 632