Feminism Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“It is my thesis that the core of the problem for women today is not sexual but a problem of identity -- a stunting…

— Betty Friedan

“It is necessary to realize that the most sacrosanct article of sexual politics in the period, the Victorian doctrine of chivalrous protection and its…

— Kate Millett

“Women had worked at heavy jobs for centuries alongside men.21 They were now barred from heavy, manual, wage-earning labour, only to carry out heavy,…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“As I was editing this chapter, a survey of more than thirty-five hundred Australian surgeons revealed a culture rife with bullying, discrimination, and sexual…

— Cordelia Fine

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

— Clara Zetkin

“It was possible to explore the 'great tradition' of the English novel and believe that in doing so you were addressing questions of fundamental…

— Terry Eagleton

“Trains running in every direction spit hot ash and cinders. Ministers and moralists feared that the vibrations and jostling of such fast travel would…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Finding a woman like that amidst the herd of half-feeling, half-caring, half-responding, females in our society of 1860's England was not so much like…

— Dan Simmons

“Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance…

— Jude Deveraux

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

— Melissa Farley

“It was women’s work, and therefore monotonous, backbreaking, and social.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we…

— Bertrand Russell