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I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.
Elizabeth I of England1533–1603Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman?
Sojourner Truth1797–1883Speech at the Women’s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (29 May 1851), in the version Frances Dana Gage published in 1863; the report printed at the time, in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, has no “ain’t I a woman?”
- Race
- Women
I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain⁠—it seems strange it should have to be explained⁠—what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women.
Emmeline Pankhurst1858–1928Freedom or Death (1913)
- Women
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
- Beauty
- Women
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter XIXIn context
- Truth & Lies
- Women
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Men
“it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context
A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIn context
- Money
- Women
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Women
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Love
- Women
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 too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Freedom
- Women
The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers⁠—stern and wild ones⁠—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Experience
- Women
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XLIIn context
I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool⁠—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IIn context
- Women