America Quote by Harriet Martineau

“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

“Lady," we always call each other, partly a joke, partly in earnest, using still the old word, in its full flavor a kind of…

— Kate Millett

The ladette thing, it's all a bit weird. I never really liked the word as it suggested we wanted to be men. We didn't.

— Sara Cox

“Her boldness only served to remind him that he had strayed into a world of masculine privilege even greater than the one he had…

— Teresa Medeiros

We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems…

— Harvey Mansfield

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out…

— Laura Mulvey

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term…

— Sara Sheridan

“it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do a lot…

— Foz Meadows

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous…

— Doris Lessing