Earth Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was…

— Anonymous

“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

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

Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would…

— John Todd

It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Domination of women has provided a key link, both socially and symbolically, to the domination of earth, hence the tendency in patriarchal cultures to…

— Rosemary Radford Ruether

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

— Storm Jameson

On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to…

— Ellen Key

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that…

— John Stuart Mill

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they…

— Louisa May Alcott

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

— Henri Frederic Amiel