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Source: HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

“What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.”

Men Ideas Use Political Politics Men And Women Sexism

Book:1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy

Source: 1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy

“The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.”

Known Models Species Oppression Sexism

Book:The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions

Source: The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions

“Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”

World Way Writing Years Two Self Lasts Mother Half Built Ill Two Years Sexism Cake Balanced Being A Mother Scolded Ill Tempered Balanced Relationship

Author:Margaret Mead

“I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.”

Ifs Together Claims Prejudice Excuse Superiors Sexism Persecution Convenient Harassment

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”

Consciousness Five Thousand Empathy Prejudice Dollars Males Privilege Absence Holes Welcome Sexism Pregnant Committees Salary Counterparts

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.”

Mind Believe Facts Instance Merit Motive Sexism Judged Timing Credibility Harassment

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.”

Men Wells Sex Moral Opinion Men And Women Sexism

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

“Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be polite,but be yourself, be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don't comment on the sexism. . . . Girls are trained to be less than who they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.”