Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both. Nevertheless, there have been women ... who had the choice, and chose the job and made a success of it. And there have been and are many men who have sacrificed their careers for women ... When it comes to a choice, then every man or woman has to choose as an individual human being, and, like a human being, take the consequences.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: empowerment gender women choice freedom feminism self-determination misogyny inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés career
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: empowerment gender men women feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes double-standards clichés career social-norms passion-for-work
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: sexuality liberty empowerment gender women morality feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy double-standards encroachment dignity social-norms suppression chastitiy
... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?
Carrie JonesStichwörter: self-determination personal-responsibility
I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
Charlotte BrontëStichwörter: empowerment gender women freedom identity integrity self-determination independence self-awareness character flaws realism image ideal-woman
I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.
Elizabeth TaylorStichwörter: self-esteem self-determination
There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
Isaac MarionStichwörter: self-determination
I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
Mary WollstonecraftStichwörter: empowerment equality gender reason men women freedom self-determination independence superiority submission women-s-rights
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William ShakespeareStichwörter: happiness empowerment blessings freedom marriage self-determination independence husbands bachelorhood singles matrimony
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
William ShakespeareStichwörter: happiness love empowerment choice marriage pleasure self-determination independence marriage-proposal husbands courtship matrimony dignity wooing
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