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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
- Education
- Women
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
- Women
Because class oppression of women and children is couched in the phraseology of “cute” it is much harder to fight than open oppression.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 4
- Children
- Women
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don’t doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men’s.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896The Pearl of Orr’s Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862).
- Women
- Writing
I deny that anyone knows, or can know, the nature of the two sexes, as long as they have only been seen in their present relation to one another.
John Stuart Mill1806–1873The Subjection of Women (1869), Ch. 1
- Men
- Women
Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the new repulsion, always different, always new.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1929)
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford’s lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Jane Fondaborn 1937Michael Perry. Jane’s wrinkled but Fonda herself now. Sydney Morning Herald, 22 December 1985
- Age
- Women
People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.
Elton Johnborn 1947from 1976 interview with Rolling Stone magazine
- Comedy
I’m not afraid to be sexy. A woman who is intelligent and also knows how to weaponize her beauty… there’s nothing more dangerous than that. There’s nothing more powerful than that.
Megan Foxborn 1986Megan Fox reveals thoughts on being Hollywood ‘sex symbol’ at Met Gala: ‘I’m not afraid to be sexy’ USA Today. (September 13, 2021)
Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.
Cherborn 1946“Cher Genius”, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday (28 November 2010)
- Women
I love men! I think men are the coolest, but you don’t really need them to live. My mom said to me, ‘You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man.’ I said, ‘Mom, I am a rich man.’
Cherborn 19461996 interview with Jane Pauley for Dateline, quoted in “Taylor Swift Referenced This Iconic Cher Quote In The “You Need To Calm Down” Video” Bustle (June 17, 2019)
I love having boyfriends. A girl can wait for the right man to come along – but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
Cherborn 1946“Cher Genius”, an interview in You magazine, the Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper (28 November 2010), interviewed by Elaine Lipworth in Las Vegas.
- Comedy
- Men
How can you say young girls don’t get it? They’re our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going.
Harry Stylesborn 1994Interview by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone (18 April 2017)
- Women
- Youth
I am proud to be a woman and a feminist.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussexborn 1981UN speech on International Women’s Day 2015
- Women
I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can’t take that away from me.
Giorgia Meloniborn 1977Giorgia Meloni: The long climb to Italy’s political summit Euro News (October 22, 2022).
- Christianity
- Women