“The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon m…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, en.wikiquote.org
“But there is not a single person employed in any way at the court, in Paris, or in the provinces, who is not acquainted with some woman through whose hands pass all the favors and sometimes all the wrongs which he may wish done. These women are all in each other’s secrets, and form a sort of republi…”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“Just how many gnarly depictions of motherhood are necessary for anything to change? If our laws and policies reflected the challenges of parenthood, perhaps we wouldn’t feel such pangs upon seeing a counter soaked in breast milk.”— Jen Gann, thecut.com
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.”— Alice Paul, radcliffe.harvard.edu
“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“I feel like a draft dodger from the army in which so many of my friends are serving.”— Sheila Heti, thecut.com
“Who would have thought? Me. I did. Ever since I was a little girl, my fairy tale ending involved a pantsuit, not a wedding dress. Success meant doing something well enough to secure independence.”— Jessica Knoll, mobile.nytimes.com
“The way you are taught to be a girl will become how you are as a woman – a woman who is, at her core, not good enough, without worth, tarnished.”— xtx, theguardian.com
“Intelligence is an intoxicating quality in a woman.”— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Justine Juel Gillmer, Quinn, Marton Csokas, imdb.com
“The women on The Bachelor shows aren't interested in marriage except as a certificate of completion; proof that they've become what a girl is still expected to become. What they're looking for is the chance to embark on the singular adventure they've read about and seen acted in movie after movie th…”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“The Bachelor presents itself as a show about beautiful young single people finding love, but the show is less a matchmaking service than a sporting event. The sport is femininity.”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“As Felitti spoke to the 183 people in the program, he found 55 percent had been sexually abused. One woman said she put on weight after she was raped because 'overweight is overlooked, and that’s the way I need to be.' It turned out many of these women had been making themselves obese for an unconsc…”— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.com
“Put simply, men warn me about challenges. Women try to help me solve them.”— Heather Bryant, medium.com
“There's a lot of people who have that opinion that women aren't as funny or aren't as smart as men. Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going…”— Ellen Degeneres, wsj.com
“I put on pants fifty years ago and declared a sort of middle road. I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to and I've made enough money to support myself and I ain't afraid of being alone.”— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com
“Romantic love is a mirror in which you can see your whole self pleasantly reflected, if you're lucky. Or it's a dark mirror into which you can disappear.”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com
“A woman’s education was designed to coax her to sleep at sixteen and keep her unchanged and unconscious forever. It was an undoing. It wasn’t a start but a “finishing”.”— Carina Chocano, amazon.com