Quote by Frantz Fanon

“Militant might in women is named as unfeminine aggression; scholarship in women is diminished into a domestic art. Religious life is viewed as sexual…

— Philippa Gregory

“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps a special…

— Diana Trilling

When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“America today limits girls’ development, truncates their wholeness and leaves many of them traumatized.”

— Mary Pipher

“The most common occurrence in this world of ours, in these days of stumbling blindly forward, is to come across men and women mature…

— José Saramago

“Her mind moved around and around the subject, moving with a kind of fuzzy firmness. With no coherent thought process, she arrived at a…

— Jim Thompson

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was…

— Henry James

“She grew tired of shielding her body, For societal expectation and propriety, Double standards and sobriety, Ideologies of prudent cries, And boys who made…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and…

— Thomas Merton

The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself,…

— Bell Hooks

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and…

— Jane Austen

. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or…

— Candace Bushnell