Empires Quote by Olympe de Gouges

Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.

— Olympe de Gouges

“Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I am afraid we women are factionists; we always take a side, and nature has formed us for advocates rather than judges.”

— Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her

— George Bernard Shaw

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“perhaps the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality…

— Gerda Lerner

“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

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live…

— Samuel Johnson

“Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

— Voltaire

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“What sustains us, in belief as in action, is not reason or justification, but something more basic than these--for we go on in the…

— Thomas Nagel