Oppression of women · Skopia

Quotes

39

Essay · Political literature

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

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 4.5

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

1957

★ 4.3

Historical literature

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.

Thucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC

★ 3.7

Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customers, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1860

★ 3.7

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Books

7

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

1949★ 8.7

A Doll's House

1879★ 8.0

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

1985★ 7.7

The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill

1869★ 6.8

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1848★ 6.6

The Feminine Mystique

1963★ 6.5

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