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“Largely to spare his feelings, she’d spoken in rather vague terms about wanting to “find herself,” and Yates concluded that she’d become a “womens’-libbing…

— Blake Bailey

“Vevers remarked on what struck them as Yates's peculiar attitude toward women: 'He expected them to drink a lot and be beautiful all the…

— Blake Bailey

“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its…

— Jane Austen

“Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women:…

— George Eliot

“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

“She wanted to teach the justices that the very notion of “sugar and spice and everything nice” limited the opportunities and aspirations of their…

— Teri Kanefield

“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine…

— Beverly Jenkins

“Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his…

— Virginia Woolf

“The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally produces dependence…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is…

— Jane Austen

“Harry looked at Margaret and thought that, should a woman grow old, she might still have her deepest charm. Should a woman grow old,…

— Mark Helprin