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3459977 I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. double-standards empowerment equality feminism flattery gender hypocrisy independence men misogyny rationality reason self-determination social-norms stereotypes strength women women-s-rights Jane Austen
78f9e34 I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. empowerment equality experience freedom gender independence men reason self-determination submission superiority women women-s-rights Charlotte Brontë
1313359 Blindness separates people from things inspirational women-s-rights Helen Keller
6866128 An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. double-standards empowerment inequality prison women women-s-liberation women-s-rights Pearl S. Buck
18f45fb Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. inspirational women-s-rights Simone de Beauvoir
6fcfdc8 As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only. iran prison-rape rape sexual-repression sodomy women-s-rights Christopher Hitchens
f2e0593 [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman. empowerment feminism gender history independence inequality marriage married-life matrimony men misogyny perception self-abnegation self-determination social-norms subjugation wedlock women women-s-rights Antonia Fraser
6089d25 Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. equality gender men women women-s-liberation women-s-rights world Pearl S. Buck
5aad7e2 And - as a woman reconciled in her own body - I feel I can argue with anyone's god about my right to end a pregnancy. My first conception - wanted so badly - ended in miscarriage, three days before my wedding. A kind nurse removed my wedding manicure with nail-polish remover, in order to fit a finger-thermometer for the subsequent D&C operation. I wept as I went in to the operating theatre, and wept as I came out. In that instance, my body had decided that the baby was not to be and had ended it. This time, it was my mind that has decided that this baby was not to be. I don't believe one's decision is more valid than the other. They both know me. They are both equally capable of deciding what is right. women-s-rights Caitlin Moran
be0c072 "Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep." assault assaults behavior catcalling communication culture disrespect feminism gender gender-roles harassment men-and-women men-s-behavior misogynist misogyny not-listening personal-autonomy personal-experience personal-experiences personal-space predators predatory-behavior problems-in-the-world problems-of-today problems-with-men problems-with-society rape rape-culture rapists saying-no sexism sexual-abuse sexual-assault sexual-violence sexuality street-harassment survivors verbal-abuse victims women women-and-men women-s-experiences women-s-issues women-s-rights Jon Krakauer
b29ed5e A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated -- and turned out to grass. education empowerment inequality men women women-s-liberation women-s-rights Pearl S. Buck
d7c8c5c "...Both Elizabeth [Smart] and Ruby [Jessop] were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped and "kept captive by polygamous fanatics." The main difference in the girls' respective ordeals...is that "Elizabeth was brainwashed for nine months," while Ruby had been brainwashed by polygamist fanatics "since birth." Despite the similarity of their plights, Elizabeth's abusers were jailed and charged with sexual assault, aggravated burglary, and aggravated kidnapping, while Ruby... "was returned to her abusers, no real investigation was done, no charges brought against anyone" involved." mormonism polygamy religion religion-and-children women-s-rights Jon Krakauer
0f5e255 We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules of men and thinks she can make her own destiny. I am here not only to witness what happens to a heretic. I am here to witness what happens to a woman who thinks she knows more than men. fear history oppression religion witchhunt women-s-rights Philippa Gregory
69fcb91 It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the way God had arranged Creation, sanctified in the words of the Apostle. ... Under the common law of England at the accession of King James I, no female had any rights at all (if some were allowed by custom). As an unmarried woman her rights were swallowed up in her father's, and she was his to dispose of in marriage at will. Once she was married her property became absolutely that of her husband. What of those who did not marry? Common law met that problem blandly by not recognizing it. In the words of [the leading 17th century compendium on women's legal status]: 'All of them are understood either married or to be married.' In 1603 England, in short, still lived in a world governed by feudal law, where a wife passed from the guardianship of her father to her husband; her husband also stood in relation to her as a feudal lord. common-law empowerment fathers feminism feudalism gender guardianship history husbands independence inequality marriage married-life matrimony men misogyny property self-determination social-norms subjugation wedlock women women-s-rights Antonia Fraser
eea3fdb I realize that violence is not more prevalent today than in previous periods of human history, but there is a difference. We have seen visionary standards adopted by the global community that espouse peace and human rights, and the globalization of information ensures that the violation of these principles of nonviolence by a powerful and admired democracy tends to resonate throughout the world community. We should have advanced much further in the realization of women's rights, given these international commitments to peace and the rule of law. women-s-rights Jimmy Carter
1c9f5d0 "The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men. Our women are respected here, said the father. We would never let them tramp the world as American women do. There is always someone to look after the Olinka woman. A father. An uncle. A brother or nephew. Do not be offended, Sister Nettie, but our people pity women such as you who are cast out, we know not from where, into a world unknown to you, where you must struggle all alone, for yourself. So I am an object of pity and contempt, I thought, to men and women alike. Furthermore, said Tashi's father, we are not simpletons. We understand that there are places in the world where women live differently from the way our women do, but we do not approve of this different way for our children. But life is changing, even in Olinka, I said. We are here. He spat on the ground. What are you? Three grownups and two children. In the rainy season some of you will probably die. You people do not last long in our climate. If you do not die, you will be weakened by illness. Oh, yes. We have seen it all before. You Christians come here, try hard to change us, get sick and go back to England, or wherever you come from. Only the trader on the coast remains, and even he is not the same white man, year in and year out. We know because we send him women. Tashi is very intelligent, I said. She could be a teacher. A nurse. She could help the people in the village. There is no place here for a woman to do those things, he said. Then we should leave, I said. Sister Corrine and I. No, no, he said. Teach only the boys? I asked. Yes, he said, as if my question was agreement. There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don't even look at women when women are speaking. They look at the ground and bend their heads toward the ground. The women also do not "look in a man's face" as they say. To "look in a man's face" is a brazen thing to do. They look instead at his feet or his knees." gender gender-inequality gender-stereotypes men-and-women women women-s-rights Alice Walker
e300825 I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. (Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading laws) voting women-s-rights Laura Ingalls Wilder
55ed6dc The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had to sneak around for about a thousand years tricking men into doing things they wanted. So they manipulate you instead of telling you what they want, so you never know where the hell you are. And then they get mad at you and bitch. complaints liberation sneaky tricks women women-s-lib women-s-liberation women-s-rights Jennifer Crusie
1bc556e The formal education of women was rarely considered important. Girls of good birth were taught domestic skills at home or in a convent, and rarely learned to read and write, for it was feared that if they did they would waste their talents writing love letters or reading romances that led to promiscuity. women-s-rights Alison Weir
c484a42 So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means? It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king. patriarchy queens women women-s-rights George R.R. Martin
738c119 Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that's the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride. feminist women women-s-rights Joyce Carol Oates
e70f4ed "Hay gente que pregunta: "?Por que usar la palabra "feminista"? ?Por que no decir simplemente que crees en los derechos humanos o algo parecido?". Pues porque no seria honesto. Esta claro que el feminismo forma parte de los derechos humanos en general, pero elegir usar la expresion generica "derechos humanos" supone negar el problema especifico y particular del genero. Es una forma de fingir que no han sido las mujeres quienes se han visto excluidas durante siglos. Es una forma de negar que el problema del genero pone a las mujeres en el punto de mira." derechos-humanos feminismo human-rights women-s-rights Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
0bc9872 The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terrifying effect of a mask. Behind that mask was a formless invincible discontent with the lot of womanhood. It wanted, -- it was not clear what it wanted, but whatever it wanted, all the domestic instincts of mankind were against admitting there was anything it could want. equality feminism suffrage vote women-s-rights H.G. Wells
53dd3d5 ... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't afraid to risk making a fool of herself. Maybe you think that's something of no consequence but it isn't - for making a fool of yourself, offering yourself to others to laugh at, to jeer, that takes guts. feminism feminist women women-s-rights Joyce Carol Oates
33b0085 "Another black woman, Margaret Wright, said she was not fighting for equality with men if it meant equality in the world of killing, the world of competition. "I don't want to compete on no damned exploitative level. I don't want to exploit nobody. . . . I want the right to be black and me. . . ." men women-s-rights Howard Zinn
c1dbfda Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu zenskih duznosti buduci da je taj zadatak odrzavao pleme na zivotu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne zene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale na svoje partnere, lovce, za nabavku hrane. inspirational life man women-s-rights women-s-strength Rosalind Miles
fb64e39 Six men control almost all the media in the United States--book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society. You will almost never see a feminist column on an op-ed page, a feminist article in a magazine, or newspaper, actual (not satirized) feminist ideas on television or in the movies. Only magazines & radio controlled by feminists--and these are few and not well-funded--offer information on the feminist perspective. This might be understandable if feminism were a wild-eyed manic philosophy. But it is a belief, a politics, based on one simple fact: women are human beings who matter as much as men. That is all that feminism claims. As human beings, women have the right to control their own bodies, to walk freely in the world, to train their minds and bodies, and to love and hate at will. Only those who wish to continue to coerce women into a servant/slave class for men cannot accept this principle. feminism gender human-rights inequality magazines media movies newspapers politics preface radio sexism television women women-s-rights Marilyn French
393a457 "Una vez yo estaba hablando de cuestiones de genero y un hombre me dijo "?Por que tienes que hablar como mujer? ?Por que no hablas como ser humano?". Este tipo de preguntas es una forma de silenciar las experiencias concretas de una persona. Por supuesto que soy un ser humano, pero hay cosas concretas que me pasan a mi en el mundo por el hecho de ser mujer. Y aquel mismo hombre, por cierto, hablaba a menudo de su experiencia como hombre negro. (Y yo tendria que haberle contestado: "?Por que no hablas de tus experiencias como hombre o como ser humano? ?Por que como hombre negro?")." feminism feminismo women-s-rights Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
92d0de1 The problem with movements is that, all too often, they are associated only with the most visible figures, the people with the biggest platforms and the loudest, most provocative voices. But feminism is not whatever philosophy is being spouted by the popular media feminist of the week, at least not entirely. movements women-s-rights Roxane Gay
07479ae Je n'ai jamais tres bien compris pourquoi on estimait que les femmes etaient moins capables que les hommes d'eviter ces dangers evidents, mais je crois que le reglement etait inspire par la galanterie plutot que par la raison. En tout, j'ai parcouru six fois la totalite de la route aerienne entre Nairobi et Londres - dont quatre fois en solo [...] -, et d'autres femmes en ont fait autant. De fait, la plus grande erreur de jugement commise pendant un vol au-dessus du Studd revient a un homme [...]. sexisme women-s-rights Beryl Markham
d747ec1 ..the expectations of Republican Motherhood - in which women's obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their husbands. women-s-rights women-writers Rebecca Traister
041c37f Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroinas de cuento de hadas en los libros es otra version del mismo proceso: deseo validar mi reivindicacion a poseer una parte equitativa del futuro, y expreso para ello la exigencia de que me concedan la parte del pasado que me corresponde. women-s-rights Angela Carter
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