Abomination Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

“the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in Western culture…

— Stephanie Golden

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace…

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal

The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature -…

— Elizabeth Blackwell

“Let us remember that, despite the tasteless fables in the Holy Writ -- Sodom and Gomorrah, for example -- Nature does not have two…

— Marquis de Sade

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated…

— Taslima Nasrin

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition…

— Mahatma Gandhi

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

— W. Somerset Maugham

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

— Betty Dodson