Behinds Quote by Ruth Rendell

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

— Camille Paglia

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred…

— Virginia Woolf

The bicycle freed 19th-century women from their homes and from their dependence on men. I hope that in Saudi Arabia, the car will do…

— Manal al-Sharif

As women go, so goes civilization.

— Laura Schlessinger

If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.

— Maddox

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

— George William Curtis

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“…imagine that the earth—four thousand six hundred million years old—[were] a forty-six-year-old woman…. It had taken the whole of the Earth Woman’s life for…

— Arundhati Roy

“A civilization that forsakes its women in any regard or manner does so at its peril. It is only half a civilization, half empty,…

— William L.J. Galaini

Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

— Ritu Ghatourey

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few…

— Johan Rockstrom