Britain Quote by Linda Colley

In my book 'Women of Westminster,' a history of 100 years of women MPs, I was struck by how abuse of women in public…

— Rachel Reeves

Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

— Noam Chomsky

Here's a history lesson: when men took power of their lands, all of a sudden, women became a prize. In order for us to…

— Kate Hudson

“But where have [the Men] proved that we are not as capable of guarding ourselves from dangers, as they are of guarding us; had…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who in peacetime…

— Fay Weldon

Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn't do full public order training, you couldn't…

— Cressida Dick

the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the…

— Emily James Smith Putnam

There was that argument that if we had more women in positions of authority, the world would be a nicer place. And then we…

— Margaret MacMillan

Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an…

— Gloria Steinem

British women's history was never confined to the British mainland; and contesting the narrative around enfranchisement shows us that rights were not bestowed by…

— Ash Sarkar

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was…

— Anonymous