Authority Quote by Maria Mitchell

“There are two sides to every woman.” It might have been a mummy dispensing elder wisdom. “One is rational, like a man. The other…

— Fritz Leiber

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is…

— Deborah Tannen

Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come…

— James E. Faust

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women,

— Confucius

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

— Madame de Stael

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

— Margaret MacMillan

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

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated…

— Taslima Nasrin

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing…

— John Chrysostom

“the more understanding women acquire, the more they will be attached to their duty, comprehending it, for unless they comprehend it, unless their morals…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the…

— Victoria Woodhull