History Quote by Stephanie Golden

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

— Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

— Betty Dodson

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.

— Eric Metaxas

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil…

— Rebecca West

I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices.

— Maxine Peake