If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.
Christine de PizanTags: arts boys education empowerment equality gender girls knowledge learning opportunities school sciences
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia WoolfTags: 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 WoolfTags: empowerment gender men women feminism arrogance hypocrisy inequality self-importance
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae WestTags: 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 WestTags: 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)
Tags: empowerment equality men women appreciation
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
PlatoTags: empowerment equality gender men women work instruction skills abilities jobs
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Alexandre DumasTags: 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 NinTags: 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 AustenTags: perception education empowerment equality girls reason men women stupidity prejudice ignorance foolishness stereotypes disdain clichés charms desirability folly imbecility inferiority
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