Circumstances Quote by Susan B. Anthony

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in…

— Audre Lorde

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

“I seldom see women want to change their minds based on this propaganda. Most are resolute – they are committed to their course of…

— Willie Parker

When a woman acts as though she’s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything.

— Sherry Argov

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by…

— Betty Friedan

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

— Shirley Williams

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

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency…

— Karen Horney

“Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or in whom the natural selfishness of sensibility hasn’t been expanded by reflection, are very…

— Mary Wollstonecraft