Hazards Quote by Djuna Barnes

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.

— A. P. Herbert

“Fortunately, no matter how many times she is pushed down, she bounds up again. No matter how many times she is forbidden, quelled, cut…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway…

— Marianne Williamson

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

— Camille Paglia

the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the…

— Emily James Smith Putnam

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

— D. H. Lawrence

Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly prosper. All…

— Rod Stryker

“How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this.…

— Susan B. Anthony

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

— Melvil Dewey

Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself,…

— Paul Gauguin