Assumption Quote by Joanna Russ

“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be…

— Joanna Russ

With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the…

— Nelson Mandela

We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time…

— Carleton Young

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through…

— Emily James Smith Putnam

“In the world before we came here, faithful women were given certain assignments... while we do not now remember the particulars, this does not…

— James E. Faust

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for…

— Rosemary Radford Ruether

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the…

— Judy Chicago

I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood.…

— Humphry Davy

The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women…

— Elizabeth Debold

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession,…

— Stacy Schiff