Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia WoolfTag: empowerment gender women morality feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés womanhood dignity protectiveness social-norms
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: life perspective society social-norms
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Tag: books love education gender opportunities men women feminism misogyny inequality stereotypes constancy double-standards clichés social-norms
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Mary WollstonecraftTag: empowerment gender women morality freedom virtue feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy independence double-standards social-norms
Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Marlene DietrichTag: sexuality morality obsession puritanism social-norms inhibitions prudishness
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Jane AustenTag: strength empowerment equality gender reason men women feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy independence rationality stereotypes flattery double-standards clichés social-norms women-s-rights
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
Émile DurkheimTag: morality law rules social-norms
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary WollstonecraftTag: empowerment gender women morality manners feminism misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes double-standards clichés dignity reform social-norms
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
Mary WollstonecraftTag: strength empowerment equality gender reason men women feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy independence rationality stereotypes flattery double-standards self-sufficiency clichés social-norms women-s-rights
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia WoolfTag: empowerment gender women writing history feminism misogyny persecution witches dignity social-norms suppression women-writers anonymous-authorship
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