Desire Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize activity. It's…

— Hope Jahren

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

— Jen Kirkman

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible…

— Abigail Adams

Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

— Arsene Houssaye

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Life is like a ship, we must learn to navigate to reach the shore safely.

— Senoraroy

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but…

— Ouida