Time Quote by Beverly Jenkins

“She hadn't ascribed to this modern notion of equality between the sexes. Woman were patently superior.”

— Laura Kinsale

“This is the Victorian era," she said. "Women didn't have to make sense.”

— Connie Willis

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted…

— Marianne Williamson

“The real problem, said Mary, was not women, but how men wanted women to be.”

— Charlotte Gordon

“The only way some feminists were able to absorb the notion of a woman who didn’t necessarily want to marry a man was to…

— Rebecca Traister

“She was the rare feminist, possibly the only feminist, with an unabashed commitment to male supremacy.”

— Laura Shapiro

“It is my thesis that the core of the problem for women today is not sexual but a problem of identity -- a stunting…

— Betty Friedan

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who…

— Margaret Mitchell

“I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it…

— Elaine Dundy