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Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603), Act V, scene i, lines 91–93In context
- Beauty
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem1934–2026“Sisterhood” in New York (20 December 1971), p. 49
I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West1892–1983“Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics,” in The Clarion, (14 November 1913), re-published in The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17 (1982), p. 219
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,⁠—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Colley Cibber1671–1757Love’s Last Shift, Act IV (1696)
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
Saki1870–1916Reginald (1904)
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband’s side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
Lucille Ball1911–1989Love, Lucy (1996), p. 113
A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far.
Fannie Hurst1889–1968From speech at the National Conference of Women sponsored by “The New York Times.” Beth Blair. Women Will Have New World Status, Miami Daily News, April 27 1943, page 11A, Column 5.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815–1902First Woman’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, [July, 19-20, 1848]. Declaration of Sentiments.
Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Rape and Modern Sex War, p. 52
- Power
Women’s degradation is in man’s idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815–1902Letter to Susan B. Anthony (June 14, 1860).
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie Besant1847–1933The Freethinker’s Text-Book: Christianity
- Anti-Religion
The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815–1902The Woman’s Bible (1898)
- History
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Ch. 13: The Sunny Side
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre Lorde1934–1992The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism (1981)
- Freedom
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 51
- Writing