412 quotes found
“Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?”
“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social hierarchy. Women kept busy with numerous domestic responsibilities while thei...”
“Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value.If all men...”
“What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren't you more angry, I had wanted to ask her. But I couldn't talk to my mother that way. She unders...”
“The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts.”
“The job of the politician is to speak for all people; not just for parties with vested interests, or organisations with the biggest wallets. The first people a politician should protect are those t...”
“Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans...”
“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
“Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifte...”
“It's clear that equality doesn't quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don't want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standa...”
“I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. And remember als...”
“We are given a great power, we should capable enough to handle it and use it fair and square.”
“The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are different from a women's emotions and only marriage can bring the two worlds and the ...”
“Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.”
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.”
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from t...”
“Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal ...”
