Attention Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings…

— Ellen Willis

“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression which this…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

Men are the weaker sex and retain their immaturity, it seems, to the grave. It's like a built-in design fault. You can't do anything…

— Naveen Andrews

Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need…

— Anonymous

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

The inferiority of women is man-made.

— Helen Keller

It seemed to be a fundamental thing that women have something men don't, the obvious being an ability to bear children, and the resilience…

— Joss Whedon

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

— Anonymous

Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The only superiority in women that is tolerable to therival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which…

— Thomas Hardy

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

— Bell Hooks