Degraded Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

— Ernestine Rose

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always…

— Hanna Rosin

The scope of the history of women is so underplayed and not told as often as it should be.

— Tamlyn Tomita

Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

— Emily James Smith Putnam

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

— Bertha Knight Landes

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

— Vera Brittain

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

— Plautus

“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs.…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

— Patti LuPone

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to…

— Simone de Beauvoir