Authority Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

— Confucius

...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether…

— Angelina Grimke

“… as we submit to be dressed like dolls, we never can rise to the stations of duty and usefulness from which they desire…

— Sarah Grimké

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound…

— Abigail Adams

“Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to…

— Abigail Adams

“the basic theme is the dichotomy of womanhood. the woman cut in two. every society creates laws to exercise power over women and exclude…

— Catherine Breillat

Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly prosper. All…

— Rod Stryker

“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share in with…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for…

— Epictetus

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that…

— John Stuart Mill

“Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau