“Without her, the world was empty — its ambition, its pride, its good, its evil, seemed but the dreariest and most foolish trifles!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“She is innocent too — like a baby — and she worships her husband. That is an error! To worship a man is a great mistake — she will find it so. Men are not to be too much loved — no, no.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I guess if I'm being honest with myself, I started caring more. My feminism was birthed there.”— Katie Shelton, skunkboyblog.com
“She is innocent too — like a baby — and she worships her husband. That is an error! To worship a man is a great mistake — she will find it so. Men are not to be too much loved — no, no!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“If I was a male researcher sitting here, I would not have to justify the commercialization of my work. I would not have to justify trying to straddle the economy and popular culture. I would never be asked. Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Dan Ariely, they would not be asked.”— Brené Brown, theguardian.com
“Did you know: women are people- not receptacles for male feelings, problems, or spermatozoa?”— Allison Tolman, twitter.com
“No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“From the man of highest mental cultivation, to the most degraded wretch who staggers in the streets do we hear ridicule and coarse jests, freely bestowed upon those who dare assert that woman stands by the side of man—his equal, placed here by her God to enjoy with him the beautiful earth, which is…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ecssba.rutgers.edu
“Among the many important questions which have been brought before the public, there is none that more vitally affects the whole human family than that which is technically termed Woman's rights.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ecssba.rutgers.edu
“Man cannot speak for us—because he has been educated to believe that we differ from him so materially, that he cannot judge of our thoughts, feelings and opinions by his own. Moral beings can only judge of others by themselves—the moment they give a different nature to any of their own kind they utt…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ecssba.rutgers.edu
“In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as ‘He,’ ‘His,’ ‘Him,’ we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns ‘She,’ ‘Hers’ and ‘Her,’ are not found in the constitutions.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“What sounds good isn’t always good, yet women in my comments section continue applauding adjectives, supporting them and adding new ones of their own. At some point, we have to be realistic or we’ll collapse from expectation and frilly words.”— Robert Cormack, medium.com
“These writers, and their works, inspire us to keep pushing towards a truly intersectional, inclusive feminism that can truly topple the patriarchy once and for all.”— The Rumpus, therumpus.net
“Feminism means different things to different people but for me it's a source of strength.”— Jami Attenberg, twitter.com
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.”— Alice Paul, radcliffe.harvard.edu