Harshness Quote by Christine de Pizan

“It appears that when women and men experienced God in affective worship, they were enabled to act with courage and passionate discipline. This was…

— Alan Kreider

The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion…

— Ellen Key

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to…

— Plutarch

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to…

— Fanny Kemble

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

— Honore de Balzac

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts…

— Lemuel K Washburn

It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal…

— Susan B. Anthony

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

— Charles Lamb

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

— John Webster

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

— Angelina Grimke

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often…

— William McFee