Conditions Quote by Emily James Smith Putnam

I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power differentials between…

— Mary Beard

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was…

— Betty Friedan

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

— Diana Gabaldon

“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be…

— Joanna Russ

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

— Max Perutz

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they…

— Agnes Smedley

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

— Candice Bergen

When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be…

— Joanna Russ

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their…

— Stephen King

“If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty... the only thing we know definitely works is giving women control over their own reproduction”

— Christopher Hitchens

Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home. Yes okay,…

— Donna Strickland

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest…

— Herbert Croly