Debt Quote by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

“Women were responsible for raising next generation of citizens, they themselves needed to be well educated in order to teach their children. She never…

— Lynne Withey

In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home,…

— Rachel Cusk

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

— Shulamith Firestone

“Two lines from the book (The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan) remained wedged in her memory "It is easier to live through someone else…

— Randy Susan Meyers

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

— Susan B. Anthony

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

“Friedan demystified the fairy tale and traced it back to its roots. She named the unnamed problem. She told women they weren’t crazy, that…

— Carina Chocano

What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a…

— Madeline Miller

“It was never reasonable or fair that women should shoulder the burden of household management, but it is possible that in an effort to…

— Julianne Malveaux

“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

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

— Linda Gray

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman…

— Antonia Fraser