The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to...

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting...

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating...

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

One is not born a woman - one becomes one.

There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.

Oh, she breathed. How silly I've been. How silly we've all been, said another of the wives. We shouldn't be fighting each other. Our problems don't lie in any of the relationships we have with each...

The point of an organic family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that they can belong primarily to themselves. They may accept the services that...

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Let's be very clear about this, asshole: I've been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me 'Calm down.' Being raped comes next, and that's a fact I'm never going to...

Power has always been held by those who manage to control the origins of life by controlling women's bodies.

For me, the times that I dressed provocatively had been empowering. It felt good. It's those times that I felt comfortable in my own skin. Like really, really comfortable. And let's face it, body...

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political - is punk.

I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that...

Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.

When will women not be compelled to view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained? When will a woman cease to be made of pain?

I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves.

Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant.

There are 2 - 3 million prostitutes in India, and although many of them now sell sex to some degree willingly, and are paid, a significant share of them entered the sex industry unwillingly.

This FEMINIST Goes Hard.

When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.

I've always thought that the reason the devil approached Eve and not Adam is because the devil Recognized the power, courage, and tenacity of a woman, the world would have you believe that eve was a...

But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a woman...

Women not only bear the burden of societal expectations surrounding beauty and youth, but they also perpetuate these standards themselves—every time we dye our hair to hide gray or downplay our age,...

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.