Quote by Edith Wharton

“Those reasons are much more basic: it is flagrantly unjust to keep women out, by whatever unconscious means we do so; and we simply…

— Mary Beard

“Our nation had had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism, which…

— Anonymous

“In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.”

— Theodor Reik

“The insistence that somehow women are an endangered species that needs to be protected at all costs seems to me to be contrary to…

— Fay Weldon

“But my basic premise is that our mental, cultural template for a powerful person remains resolutely male. If we close our eyes and try…

— Mary Beard

“Why did tradition always insist that ignorance was the optimum state for important transactions involving women?”

— Curtis Craddock

“But instead of blaming women for not negotiating more, we need to recognize that women often have good cause to be reluctant to advocate…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

— Linda Colley

“Don’t be controlled by the tradition of men”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about…

— Bell Hooks

“The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women want and…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Men deprived of female company quickly became fearsome creatures, and Trevor believed you could argue that civilization was in fact the invention of women,…

— Kim Wright