Advantage Quote by Mary Astell

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

— Clare Wright

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

— Robert Bly

Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices…

— Mary Astell

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice…

— Susan Faludi

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?

— Chris Kraus

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency…

— Karen Horney

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

— Dan Quayle

Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held…

— Heather Bresch

For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real…

— Audre Lorde

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

— Sarah Weddington

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those…

— Nancy Birdsall