Dehumanization Quote by Audre Lorde

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation…

— Jean de La Fontaine

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty,…

— Albert Einstein

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that…

— John Stuart Mill

“But emotion, for most people, too often is like some sort of slumbering giant, lulled to sleep by preoccupation with the dead facts of…

— Dwight V. Swain

“Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.”

— Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are…

— Christa Wolf

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that…

— Thomas Carlyle

“At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though,…

— Alice Steinbach

“Women’s writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

“If things are better for women there, it is due to a profound and enduring social consensus that life should be made livable based…

— Judith Warner