Best Women S History Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“I suppose I am not alone in having once been oblivious to what I owed to women before me, and to the notion that I ought to find ways of repaying the debt.”

Feminism Sexism Misogyny Women S History

Book:Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

Source: Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

“Raised in an era when women were valued for their sexuality, solicitude , and silence, the eighteen year old stood loyally by Arnold's side.”

Women S Strength Wives Women S History Women S Quotes Benedict Arnold

Book:Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

Source: Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

“The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed.”

Philosophy Feminism Feminist Patriarchy Feminist Quotes Women S History Vagina Second Wave Feminism Women S Studies Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch Kyriarchy

Book:the female eunuch

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“The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be corrupted and extinguished utterly.”

Marriage Feminism Patriarchy Gender Roles Women S History Second Wave Feminism Women S Literature Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch

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“Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.”

Marriage Feminism Patriarchy Gender Roles Women S History Second Wave Feminism Women S Literature Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch

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“Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.”

Feminism Patriarchy Women S Liberation Women S History Second Wave Feminism Women S Literature Germaine Greer

Book:the female eunuch

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“When my brother,…, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned man, was always regretting the fact: ’Just my luck!’ he would say. ’What a pity she was not born a man!’ But then I gradually realized that people were saying ’It’s bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good,’ and since I have avoided writing the simplest character.”

Education Feminism Women S Rights Women Writers Women S History Murasaki Murasaki Shikibu

Author:Murasaki Shikibu

“[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam.”

Body Image Women S History Womens Empowerment Fat Shaming

Book:Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

Source: Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

“Once I thought forgiveness was great, now I see repentance to be even greater for it is life-giving. These United States are strong because they have the capacity to see and correct mistakes, to change and grow.”

Education History Racism American History Race Relations Racial Justice Women S History

Book:Prudence Crandall Woman of Courage

Source: Prudence Crandall Woman of Courage

“Listen!" I told him. "Down in the world a new thing has been born since you and I were there. They call it a Suffragette." "A new star, did you say? What are her dimensions? What hemisphere is she swinging over? Has she come to stay?" "God bless her! It seems so," I said when I could speak”

Women History Star Women S History Suffragette

Book:The House of Broken Dreams: A Memory

Source: The House of Broken Dreams: A Memory

“The less that women are visible as a research subject, the less we are likely to learn about lesbians.”

Lgbt Lesbian Women S History Lgbt History Lesbian History

Book:The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture

Source: The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture

“But what, I ask, was life really like? What hard evidence do we have for what we might want to know about women's lives? No evidence means no real knowledge.”

Women Women S History Textiles Textile History

Book:Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Source: Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

“From Mary Magdalene to Waldensian women, Ursuline nuns, Moravian wives, Quaker sisters, Black women preachers, and suffragette activists, history shows us that women do not wait on the approval of men to do the work of God.”

Women S History Women S Work Women Preachers

Book:The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

Source: The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth