Freedom Quote by John Adams

“I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it…

— Abigail Adams

“...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of…

— Abigail Adams

“Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to…

— Abigail Adams

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound…

— Abigail Adams

“I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power…

— Abigail Adams

“When feminist impulses are recorded, they are, almost always, the writings of privileged women who had some status from which to speak freely, more…

— Howard Zinn

“I'd not sign away my liberty to any man,' Alice answered with spirit.'Wives have no more rights than servants.But once we women have the…

— Janet MacLeod Trotter

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“The light of the years to come, to me; and the law would give them into your charge because you are their mother, no…

— Christina Stead

“Women were responsible for raising next generation of citizens, they themselves needed to be well educated in order to teach their children. She never…

— Lynne Withey

“Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Crucially, many of those radically single and late-married women were the ones who were able to devote their unmarried, nonmaternal lives to changing the…

— Rebecca Traister