“Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually.” MenWorldChildrenWomenViewsRightsSucceedEqualEnlightenmentSettingSettingsEmploymentDescriptionVesselEqual RightsSuppressing Author:Frederick Lenz
“The male establishment power structure has not really changed its attitude towards women. They did not give these rights to women out of kindness. These rights were fought for by many highly evolved women who cared about the lives of their daughters and granddaughters.” GivingWomenAttitudeKindnessRightsChangedEnlightenmentDaughterStructureMalesEstablishmentGranddaughterDaughter And Granddaughter 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
“Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.” IfsMenWomenFamilyRightsHighestMissionsSpheresEfficientThronesWrongedPrecious Gifts Book:Woman's Rights Source: Woman's Rights
“From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.” ImportantYoungReligionWomenNaturalRightsCircumstancesFemaleMalesRefuseDeniedPatriarchyNestsViewpointsNatural RightsMatingStuds Author:Barbara G. Walker
“A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.” MenFactsSpeakWomenMarriageCuttingWifeRightsPropertyPossessionTitlesAcquireContractsClip Author:Honore de Balzac
“When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.” MeanWomenSpaceRoomsMillionsRightsWrittenFeminismSolitudeFeministPsychologicalAbortionPrivacyDesertedAbortion Rights Author:Florence King