Age Quote by Harriet Martineau

It's a fact that within the space of a few decades, women have achieved a massive shift in the role they play - in…

— Hanna Rosin

“This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere femininity in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

— Dorothy Nevill

“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

“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

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

“Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what…

— H.G.Wells

“What must it be like to sit among women with the same animating vitality? To build vast empires and heretofore undreamt worlds? To control…

— Anonymous

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent…

— Romola Garai

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the…

— Samuel Smiles

“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true that both…

— Thomas Sankara

“Women have complained, justly, about the behavior of “macho” men. But despite their he-man pretensions and their captivation by masculine heroes of sports, war,…

— Wendell Berry