Character Quote by Ellen Key

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

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

Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil…

— Rebecca West

On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either…

— David Hume

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life—it can be a superabundance of interest...

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or in whom the natural selfishness of sensibility hasn’t been expanded by reflection, are very…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely,…

— Herbert Spencer

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

Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards…

— Frank Pittman

Virtue is the strength and power of daughters of God. ... If all humanity really understood the importance of the statement ‘We are daughters…

— Elaine S. Dalton