Quote by Virginia Woolf

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

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong

“We spent ten thousand years perfecting gender, more: gendered clothing, gendered gestures, gendered language, gendered thought, a hundred thousand tools of seduction, so literally…

— Ada Palmer

“They were so simple, men. When it came down to it, they were ruled by their erections. Even when she gave in to a…

— Lauren Blakely

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history…

— Mary Ritter Beard

“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be…

— Joanna Russ

“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

“In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because women were considered pretty…

— Elissa Stein and Susan Kim

“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of…

— Dylan Thomas

“Of course, women have always worked, that is to say, raised children, tended to the home, grown crops, etc., and how different the history…

— Nina Power

“Why did tradition always insist that ignorance was the optimum state for important transactions involving women?”

— Curtis Craddock

“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.”

— Germaine Greer