“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.” — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Ignorance, not sin, causes suffering. LIFT THE VEIL." ~ Lilli in the Great Theater” — Karen Clark Copy Share Image
“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future” — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“You nitwits think that women need alimony. They don't. They can stand on their own two feet.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“The truth is that every country has its own organic feminism. Far more than communism, capitalism, or any other philosophy I can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When girls were married they suddenly became important and relevant. Not as important as the older women or –God forbid – the… — Reem Gaafar Copy Share Image
“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When pockets were first added to women’s clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, “It’s all over with men’s superiority over women.”… — Claire B. Shaeffer Copy Share Image
“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it." Hen reddened, then… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
“It was hard not to feel resentment that men weren't forced into these choices. Some days she felt that she would spend… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“In my mother's time, [pain] was a secret burden, and women were admired for their ability to ignore, to be silent, to… — Terese Marie Mailhot Copy Share Image
“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Men still rule this world and as a result the world is broken. Men still hold most positions of power, men control… — Alice Feeney Copy Share Image
“Only the toughest among women will make the necessary next moves, the revolutionary moves, and among prostituted women one finds the toughest… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“When a woman fears the punishment that comes from calling herself a feminist, I ask: Will you be so unpunished if you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“As a group who can never afford the expensive fiction of having a nation—and whose bodies suffer from nationalism by being used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Women's liberty", "women's independence" are words on everybody's lips these days, but they stay on the lips and don't go any further.… — Saratchandra Chattopadhyay Copy Share Image
“What must it be like to sit among women with the same animating vitality? To build vast empires and heretofore undreamt worlds?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so thin there was… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The women's liberation movement of today in America, in its most oceanic sense, is a wish by women to be liked for… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Most of us have a few events that divide our lives into “before” and “after.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to realize the pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
“I used to think I would be rewarded for good behavior. Therefore, if I wasn’t understood, I must not be understandable; if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what? Hierarchical systems prevail by making us feel inadequate and imperfect. Whatever… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image