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“Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.”

Thinking Firsts Long Life Is Women Please Aim Gender Educated Sincere Never Expect

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

Should Firsts Asks Women Path Overcoming Difficulty

Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

“O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.”

Firsts Believe Women Born Forget Regret Betrayal Betray Deceiving Repent

Book:Songs of the Sun-lands

Source: Songs of the Sun-lands

“God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.”

Men Firsts Made Women Creation Enlightenment Males Adam Another Man

Author:Frederick Lenz

“God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.”

Men Firsts Made Purpose Women Enlightenment Substance Adam Ribs

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.”

Needs Mind Firsts Together Women Enlightenment First Time Climbs Fellowship Bans

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.”

Firsts Shows Women Conditions Possibility Enlightenment First Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.”

Firsts Country Use Today Women Possibility Enlightenment First Time Structure Manipulation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.”

People Firsts Women

Book:Circles on the Water

Source: Circles on the Water

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”