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“nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.”

Knows Men Doe Sex Brain Son Daughter Intelligence Equality Limitation

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.”

Men Children Whole Earth Culture Sex Members Equality Legacy Disadvantaged

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.”

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.”

Artist Sex Bases Equality Determined Occupation Recruit

Book:Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies

Source: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies

“We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.”

Ifs Giving Sex Depends Perfection Asking Excuse Equality Foolish Receiving Superiority

Book:Sesame and Lilies

Source: Sesame and Lilies

“real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.”

Mean Real Matter Sex Freedom Class Economic Advantage Equality Shifting Disappearance Real Freedom

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.”

Men Should Believe Reason Facts Eye Strong Sex Women Justice Loss Careers Seeing Policy Capacity Males Average Equality Foolish Vigor Public Policy

Author:Thomas Huxley

“As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals.”

Facts Political Order Social Sex Differences Economic Concepts Concerned Female Organization Males Equality Ethical Social Organization

Author:Alice S Rossi

“An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.”

Ideas Sex Wall Built Equality Separation Dust

Book:The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

Source: The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

“whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.”

Men Sex Virtue Equality

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.”

Mean Doe Sex Equality Occupation

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi