![]() ![]() It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! ~Anna Garlin Spencer, Woman's Share in Social Culture, 1912 That woman has been but a "silent partner" in the building of the outer temples of thought and action during the ages when she has been denied the tools of self-expression in art and science, in literature and politics, is no proof that her contribution has been small even in these lines. Slowly, however, the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made. ~Dorothy Thompson, Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and Its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States, 1938 Someday, women will realize that the object of their emancipation is not to make them more like men, but more powerfully womanly, and therefore of greater use to men and themselves and society. ~Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, 1860 Oh, leave these jargons, and go your way straight to God's work, in simplicity and singleness of heart. "Yes, but she ought not to have done this, because it is not suitable for a woman." But you want to do the thing that is good, whether it is "suitable for a woman" or not. You do not want the effect of your good things to be, "How wonderful for a woman!" nor. For what are they, both of them, the one just as much as the other, but listening to the "what people will say," to opinion, to the "voices from without"? And as a wise man has said, no one has ever done anything great or useful by listening to the voices from without. Surely woman should bring the best she has, whatever that is, to the work of God's world, without attending to either of these cries. and of the jargon which urges women to do nothing that men do. of the jargon, namely, about the "rights" of women, which urges women to do all that men do. I would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both the jargons now current everywhere. ~Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," The Clarion, 1913 November 14th, reprinted in The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911–17, 1982 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Andreæ Riveto, 1638, translated from the Latin by Thomas Wentworth Higginson ![]() For, since wisdom is so great an ornament of the human race that it should of right be extended (so far as practicable) to each and every one, I did not see why this fairest of ornaments should not be appropriate for the maiden, to whom we permit all diligence in the decoration and adornment of herself. ~Kate Trimble Sharber (b.1883), Amazing Grace, 1914Ī great reverence for knowledge and the natural sense of justice urge me to encourage in my own sex that which is most worthy the aspirations of all. "A woman who never does anything that isn't done, never does anything worth doing," Mother answered. "Besides," Aunt Hannah put in, "families don't name their children for abstract things. If we apply this to muscle, why not to mind? and, if to men's minds, why not to women's? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911), "Intellectual Cinderellas," c.1881 It is commonly considered a step forward in civilization, that whereas ancient and barbarous nations exposed children to special hardships, in order to kill off the weak and toughen the strong, modern nations aim to rear all alike carefully, without either sacrificing or enfeebling. ~Jean Finot, Problems of the Sexes, translated by Mary J. Humanity, directed by man, will suddenly find itself guided and inspired jointly by the two sexes. We shall thus witness the most magnificent social transformation that has been realised since the fall of the Roman Empire. The near future will probably side with her. Woman no longer clings to time-honoured privileges, but is everywhere demanding equal rights. The twentieth century will be the century of woman. ~Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, "On the Shelf," 1869 ~Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2009ĭon't shut yourself up in a bandbox because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take your part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours. Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. Feminism Quotes, Women's Rights, Sexism, etc. ![]()
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