Century Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“There was a time when women totally honoured and celebrated their monthly cycles. For real. It was the cycle that moved a woman from…

— Lisa Lister

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

— Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

— Washington Irving

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

— Betty Dodson

Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to…

— Ellen Key

When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.

— Mary Beard

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

— Thomas Paine

Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the…

— Julie B. Beck

Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the…

— Neal A. Maxwell

You can celebrate the female form in comfort.

— L'Wren Scott

“The stress of rapid change, the absence of supportive female relatives and the attempt to adjust to an alien way of life disturbed the…

— Gabrielle Palmer