Become Quote by Rachel Cusk

“in our present state of society woman possesses not; she is under possession,” referring to laws that barred married women from owning or inheriting…

— Megan Marshall

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work,…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

“The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of…

— bell hooks

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition…

— Mahatma Gandhi

She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.

— Kate Chopin

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan…

— Betty Friedan

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly prosper. All…

— Rod Stryker

A woman that will not stand to be taken advantage of, she is a real woman

— Josephine

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of…

— Joseph P. Bradley

In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love,…

— Catharine Beecher