“Daphne tried to convey to him that the likelihood of degrees for women at Oxford was a matter for satisfaction, perhaps, but hardly for excitement or ratification. Women's accomplishments in the University had long been equal, if not superior, to men's; degrees were not a privilege, they were simply what women deserved - their due, their right. She became very animated as she argued on this topic.” WomenFeminismWorld War OneThe Dark TideVera BrittainWomen S EducationWomen S Freedom Book:The Dark Tide Source: The Dark Tide
“I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew our selves worthy something from them, as much above their bare esteem, as they conceit themselves above us. In a word, let us shew them, by what little we do without aid of education, the much we might do if they did us justice; that we may force a blush from them, if possible, and compel them to confess their own baseness to us, and that the worst of us deserve much better treatment than the best of us receive.” FeminismMisogynyPatriarchy18th CenturyMale Privilege18th Century FeminismWomen S OppressionWomen S Education Book:Woman Not Inferior to Man Source: Woman Not Inferior to Man
“A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge beyond what is merely domestic, renders them vain, conceited and pretending.” Women S EducationC18th MisogynyWomen And Reading Author:Jonathan Swift
“What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.” EducationFeminismWomen S Education Author:Dorothy L. Sayers