Escape Quote by Hisham Matar

“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

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the…

— Annie Lennox

“was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Women, on the other hand, were easy targets. Any time things started to go wrong in the Middle East, women suffered for it first.…

— Geraldine Brooks

“We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted…

— Marianne Williamson

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

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as…

— Helen Garner

When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about…

— Kathy Calvin

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women,…

— Ellen Goodman

“There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary Girl Land, and this paradox makes the emotional experience of female adolescence more intense and…

— Caitlin Flanagan

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves,…

— Sofia Coppola

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

— Rose Macaulay