Century Quote by Susan B. Anthony

Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“A slave was the property of his or her master as were all the women in his family, and it was argued that both…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless…

— Susan Griffin

The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed,…

— John Stuart Mill

“Yet some would say, why women's history at all? Surely men and women have always shared a world, and suffered together all its rights…

— Rosalind Miles

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

— Jose Bergamin

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a…

— Bell Hooks

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

— Susan Faludi

The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

— Wafa Sultan

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

— Jeanne Phillips