“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.” MenBodyLawDesireSocialVirtueCrimeProduceCommandCivilizedCustomsLegislatorsSavagery Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
“Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.” MenUseBodyAccessDenialCustomsWomen's BodiesPressuredSocializationDisadvantaged Author:Catharine MacKinnon
“As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.” MenHeartMayCountryBodySimpleMoralPrinciplesWonderfulHarmonyClimateComplicatedPursuitImpulseMotiveCustomsGravityVaryCelestialMicrocosmCelestial Bodies Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.” GivingMindReasonBodyActionFormOpportunityIndividualForceResponsibilityInfluenceDevelopmentHigherSolitudeFacultyCustomsStrongestSuperstitionsWomens RightsDependenceBondageMind And BodyPersonal ResponsibilityFreedom Of ThoughtEmancipationHigher EducationThoughts And ActionsIndividual Life Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton