Accustomed Quote by Deborah Sampson

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I…

— Deborah Sampson

“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

“It was not that the woman boasted. Quite the opposite. She was modest to a fault, the fault being she insinuated her modesty, deftly,…

— Cathleen Schine

“... The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did…

— Eve Ensler

I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures,…

— Lucretia Mott

“How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who…

— Jane Austen

“Was that what they called the natural lot of women? to suffer, perhaps to share the blame, but have no share in the plan,…

— Margaret Oliphant

“Furthermore—” “There’s a ‘furthermore’?” His voice was utterly inflectionless. “—I’m not a child. I’m a lady born of one of England’s finest and oldest…

— Julie Anne Long

“It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of…

— Francis Wyndham

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

“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