Argument Quote by Frances Wright

“Another much-discussed question is, whether women are intended by nature to be subject to men.“No,” said a very gallant philosopher to me the other…

— Montesquieu

“Why did tradition always insist that ignorance was the optimum state for important transactions involving women?”

— Curtis Craddock

“...it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous,…

— Jane Austen

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

— Jules Michelet

“Here haue I cause, in men iust blame to find, That in their proper prayse too partiall bee, And not indifferent to woman kind,…

— Edmund Spenser

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“the Men, biased by custom, prejudice, and interest, have presumed boldly to pronounce sentence in their own favour, because possession empowered them to make…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

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

In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults…

— Clementine Ford

“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

“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as…

— Johanna Siguroardottir