Age Quote by Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been…

— Maria Mitchell

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilised country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity,…

— Aristotle

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

— Anonymous

“Another much-discussed question is, whether women are intended by nature to be subject to men.“No,” said a very gallant philosopher to me the other…

— Montesquieu

It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland.…

— Susan Brownmiller

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

— Cato the Elder

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“Patriarchy demands of men that they become and remain emotional cripples. Since it is a system that denies men full access to their freedom…

— Bell Hooks