Le pays latins, comme les pays d’Orient, oppriment la femme par le rigueur des moeurs encore plus que par celle des lois.

blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

A woman is not an object of convinience; but a creation of Gods purpose.

Nice” women, however wronged, would never claim the kind of freedom he meant, and generous-minded men like himself were therefore—in the heat of argument—the more chivalrously ready to concede it to them. Such verbal generosities...

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

Your indignant behavior over the slightest perceived gender inequality makes it almost certain that inequality is what you masturbate to at night.

He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what’s beyond ahead.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

look in a man’s face” is a brazen thing to do. They look instead at his feet or his knees.

mangina.”Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s...

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

L’ideologie chrétienne n’a pas peu contribué à l’oppression de la femme.

No, I’m the human here. I’m the life at stake. I’m the one with fingernails, who feels pain.Me.

Le privilège économique détenu par les hommes, leur valeur sociale, le prestige du mariage, l’utilité d’un appui masculin, tout engage les femmes à vouloir ardenment plaire aux hommes. Elles sont encore dans l’ensemble en situation...

It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status,...

On s’empresse de les décharger de toute t che pénible et de tout souci: c’est les délivrer du même coup de toute responsabilité. On espère qu’ainsi dupées, séduites par la facilité de leur condition, elles...

The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and the gendered expectations of midcentury America.

Législateurs, prêtres, philosophes, écrivains, savants se sont acharnés à démontrer que la condition subordonnée de la femme était voulue dans le ciel et profitable à la terre.

She was a spiky teenager rebelling against the soul-suck mirror reflected back at her in her mother’s blank stare, her question mark of a spine. Determined to beat the odds, she completed high school with...