Life Quote by Linda Hirshman

“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

“(…) the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date—to work her own property, to live free…

— Joshua Zeitz

“Social progress and changes of historical period take place in proportion to the advance of women toward liberty, and social decline occurs as a…

— Charles Fourier

“It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed…

— Gail Collins

“There is, in fact, a primary driving force behind women's reluctance to see their ambition as a virtue.”

— Debra Condren

“It was women’s work, and therefore monotonous, backbreaking, and social.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Inevitably, the older a woman became, the less she attracted people’s eyes; now that she could go virtually unseen, it was her turn to…

— Minae Mizumura

“We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be…

— S.E. Cupp

“The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“She was a woman, how difficult could it be to pacify her”

— C.J. Roberts

“What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice. We’ve had to fight to vote,…

— Roxane Gay

“She thought only men of property and talent should hold positions in government and once elected they should be allowed to rule with a…

— Lynne Withey