Advancing Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

— Nawal El Saadawi

“[The] women's movement has been a blessing in many ways. [But] even as we have gained more physical and social opportunities, we are more…

— Wendy C. Top

“It is difficult to exaggerate the adverse influence of the precepts and practices of religion upon the status and happiness of woman. Owing to…

— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

— Frederick Lenz

The liberation of women has brought a lot of equality to the man, in the emancipation of the man as a bulldog; we can…

— Mario Testino

“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or not the…

— Betty Friedan

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the…

— Emma Goldman

“What is meant by woman’s equality is usually her right to share in the exercise of power within society, once it is accepted that…

— Carla Lonzi

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men…

— Emma Watson