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
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
Jodi PicoultTags: love marriage inequality
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
Audre LordeTags: power feminism inequality
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin D. RooseveltTags: money kindness progress wealth inequality poverty
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo FreireTags: power inequality neutrality powerlessness radicalism
Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Laurence J. PeterTags: inequality
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment gender women morality feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés womanhood dignity protectiveness social-norms
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas JeffersonTags: experience inequality europe cannibalism
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane AddamsTags: humanity society security inequality rights
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. DebsTags: inspirational compassion freedom humanity inequality radicalism kinship subversion
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