Calm Quote by Julianna Baggott

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly,…

— Rebecca Solnit

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

— Madeleine Albright

We need to be vocal in our support of female colleagues who are pressing for a dramatic shift in the culture of Parliament.

— Nick Boles

Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed at men…

— Betty Friedan

Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it,…

— Colum McCann

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the…

— Jane Fonda

I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power differentials between…

— Mary Beard

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those…

— Nancy Birdsall

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

“women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness”

— erica jong

Women can build stability. We can make peace.

— Hawa Abdi

I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's…

— Sarah Jessica Parker