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Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977“We should all be feminists” During a Ted Talk in the United Kingdom at TedxEuston,2012.
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Marriage and Morals (1929)
- Marriage
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (June 20, 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (July 3, 1873)
- Justice
- Laws
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Second Sex (1949), Bk. I, Pt. 2, Ch. 8: Since the French Revolution: the Job and the Vote, p. 133
- Genius
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
Pearl S. Buck1892–1973“America’s Medieval Women,” Harper’s Magazine (August 1938)
- Freedom
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Obituary for Emmy Noether (1935)
- Genius
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly1868–1916The Re-Conquest of Ireland (1915), ch. VI “Woman”; repr. in P. Berresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly: Selected Writings (1973), p. 191
- Work
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815–1902Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (July 19-20, 1848).
- History
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Young India (10 April 1930)
- Justice
Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams1744–1818Letter to John Adams (31 March 1776), published in Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams (1875) edited by Charles Francis Adams, p. 147
- Men
- Power
The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women.
Betty Friedan1921–2006The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 1 “The Problem That Has No Name”, opening lines
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Betty Friedan1921–2006The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 6, p. 126
- Love
What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
Catullus84–54 BCLXX, lines 3–4
- Love
Man has his will,⁠—but woman has her way!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 2
- Men