First time 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

“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

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“A particular young woman became critically important in the working out of our salvation precisely because she was and remains a woman. Thus, all…

— Mitch Finley

“We had forgotten the most important lesson of being women: We are one another, and when all else fails, we have one another.”

— Lizz Winstead

“At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though,…

— Alice Steinbach

“Who was this woman before me, her face imprinted with the expectations of others? I was Mom. I was Wife. I was Tragedy. I…

— Melanie Benjamin

“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

“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.”

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“You hold the collective story of all women in your body. The muscle memory of generations past. This is your legacy, but it is…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.”

— Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy

“It sounds so obvious and simple to me, so motherhood and apple pie. And yet the idea that women are human beings remains news,…

— Anita Diamant