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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Virginia Woolf

Stichwörter: empowerment gender men women feminism emancipation misogyny

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

Stichwörter: empowerment gender men women feminism arrogance hypocrisy inequality self-importance

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Mae West

Stichwörter: empowerment freedom marriage self-reliance independence institutions double-entendre bachelorhood self-sufficiency singles

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.

Rebecca West

Stichwörter: empowerment women opinions feminism clichés womens-liberation

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."

(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)

Aung San Suu Kyi

Stichwörter: empowerment equality men women appreciation

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

Stichwörter: empowerment equality gender men women work instruction skills abilities jobs

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Alexandre Dumas

Stichwörter: strength empowerment women perseverance defeat

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

Anaïs Nin

Stichwörter: empowerment self-control courage responsibility character destiny self-improvement

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

Jane Austen

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