Culture Quote by Susan Griffin

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

It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal…

— Susan B. Anthony

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than…

— George Farquhar

“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies,…

— Naomi Wolf

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

— Margaret Fuller

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

— Susan Faludi

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

— Shulamith Firestone

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to…

— Fanny Kemble

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the…

— Lydia M. Child

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

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