Birth Quote by Monique Wittig

“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

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

What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in…

— Terry McMillan

During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that,…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

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

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever…

— Angela Carter

“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

— Saul Bellow

By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social…

— Eugenio Maria de Hostos

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

— Adlai Stevenson I

Women are held to a different standard than men. That is indisputable.

— Jessica Tarlov

When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become…

— Catharine Beecher