Burden Quote by Isak Dinesen

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

— Isak Dinesen

While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and…

— Frederick Lenz

I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be…

— William P. Young

“I had seen other women embark on spiritual journeys only to become frightened and turn back. Become frightened of what, I needed to ask.…

— Christina Crawford

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all…

— Danica Patrick

“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or not the…

— Betty Friedan

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Sex discrimination and hate crimes against women don't come from the leather community or its pornography. They occur within contexts like industrial capitalism and…

— Pat Califia

I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and…

— Eve Ensler

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of…

— Nancy Astor

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it &…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton