Development Quote by Margaret Sanger

The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love,…

— Catharine Beecher

“Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, where a woman can count on stability; our legal…

— Orson Scott Card

“In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It is the…

— Shulamith Firestone

“it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

— Sally Quinn

The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important…

— Jenna Wortham

“Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women.”

— Audre Lorde

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything…

— Polly Toynbee

“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

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

— Ellen Key

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

— Vladimir Lenin

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

— Nicholas D. Kristof