Afraid Quote by Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan

“I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive.”

— David Bedrick

“Yeah, I feel like, as women, we have to choose between two different dire4ctions to make it in this world, either we try to…

— Jamie Varon

“Women are an eternal subject, which is a lot like being subjected, or subjugated, or a subject nation, even.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“I've always believed that if women could only collectively harness the power that they have then they'd rule the world.”

— John Boyne

“In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.”

— Theodor Reik

“Women rule the world; we just let our men think they do.”

— Prescott Lane

“This is a battle that we will win. Because women are wittier, brighter, stronger and braver than a misogynistic and patriarchal world has given…

— Laura Bates

“I consider it presumption in anyone to pretend to decide what women are or are not, can or cannot be, by natural constitution. They…

— John Stuart Mill

“The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully. So there is no good reason to believe men when they try…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“She is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous principles are held by her.”

— John Cotton

“Women are the reason of the existence of men.”

— Nkosiyazi Shange

“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of…

— Dylan Thomas