Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment gender women on-fiction fiction problems women-writers
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Virginia WoolfTags: arts empowerment gender women creativity liberation artists skills abilities encroachment occupation careers women-writers restrictions
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial.
Moderata FonteTags: empowerment gender men women self-esteem feminism misogyny inequality superiority dignity social-norms subjugation pre-eminence subjection
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: greatness empowerment gender men women choice marriage feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés matrimony social-norms
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: greatness empowerment equality gender men women strong integrity human-nature feminism misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes feminist skills husbands men-and-women wives abilities double-standards clichés penina-mezei
What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.
Tags: intelligence empowerment gender women feminism prejudice misogyny achievements academia stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés academic-degrees intellectual-success
I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
Charlotte BrontëTags: empowerment gender women freedom identity integrity self-determination independence self-awareness character flaws realism image ideal-woman
This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life success happiness empowerment carpe-diem seize-the-day
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 WollstonecraftTags: empowerment equality gender reason men women freedom self-determination independence superiority submission women-s-rights
One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.
Thomas L. FriedmanTags: empowerment social-entrepreneurship community-development
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