Accepting Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“For man was created of the dust of the earth, but woman was made of a part of man, after that he was a…

— Rachel Speght

Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into…

— Alice Coltrane

“Probably the prevailing opinion, that woman was created for man, may have taken its rise from Moses's poetical story; yet, as very few it…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The proper study of mankind is woman.

— Henry Adams

“As Merleau Ponty very justly puts it, man is not a natural species: he's a historical idea. Woman is not a completed reality, but…

— Simone de Beauvoir

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should…

— Moderata Fonte

“Women are an eternal subject, which is a lot like being subjected, or subjugated, or a subject nation, even.”

— Rebecca Solnit

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was…

— Anonymous

“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract ideas of…

— Marcel Proust

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Woman thus emerged as the inessential who never returned to the essential, as the absolute Other, without reciprocity. All the creation myths express this…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters…

— Gordon B. Hinckley