“Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?” ShouldHumansWomenCenturyFemaleThirdsLaysFortyEggsCrocodiles Author:Aldous Huxley
“What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power.” DoneUseWomenCenturyFineEnlightenmentEvolve Author:Frederick Lenz
“While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.” WorldYearsStillsTodayLastsCertainWomenViewsRightsCenturyEnlightenmentHundredOur WorldMentalityWomens RightsInferiorsWorld TodayConditioningNotable Author:Frederick Lenz
“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 condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.” MenGovernmentMightFormOrderWomenProgressConditionsSubjectsCenturyKingsCivilizationNormalWeightSlaveryMajoritySlaveDependentInferiorsPopeNobilityForms Of Government Author:Susan B. Anthony
“After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.” RememberWomenConditionsCenturyFemalePerpetualFemininityConditioning Author:Germaine Greer
“Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.” HumansMadePurposeStrongSexWomenDestinyHistoryModernSubjectsEffectsCenturyIncludingDespiteHuman LifeDogmaAssertionNineteenth CenturyStrong WillWomen In History Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayReligionChoicesWomenCentury Author:Elaine Pagels
“Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.” ChildrenPersonsIdeasProblemTodayMotherIndividualWomenWorkCareersCenturyConflictGuiltCurrentsDefinedMen WomenBeing A WomanNineteenth CenturyBeing A MotherMalaise Author:Sandra Scarr
“Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.” MotherWomenCenturyCustoms Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.” ReligionWomenCenturyTests Author:Meera
“An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldGivingImportantTodayPoliticalMotherWomenVirtueWifeSpecialCenturySourceEthicsEdgesFeministMotherhoodRealmsFulfillingImproving19th CenturyPolitical PowerPersonal PowerWorking LifeWives And Mothers Author:Clare Wright