Children Quote by Virginia Woolf

“was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Davies and Frawley believe that while the child may be a passive victim of the original sexual abuse, the child’s subsequent active elaboration of…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“One of the more curious paradoxes of Yates’s nature was his almost archaic courtliness toward women on the one hand, and his lifelong tendency…

— Blake Bailey

“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine…

— Beverly Jenkins

“People will point to books written about women, by men, and books written by women, and say, ‘Tell me, what is the difference?’ The…

— Shireen Dodson

“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.”

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“When one gender is so unwanted, so despised, and so suppressed in a place where daughters are expressly unwanted, perhaps both the body and…

— Jenny Nordberg

“Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.”

— Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy

“I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought…

— Jane Austen

“women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft