The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

The Darwinian approach to sex is often attacked as being antifeminist, but that is just wrong. Indeed, the accusation is baffling on the face of it, especially to the many feminist women who have...

Here's a nifty solution: Each couple that marries should take on an entirely new surname, chosen however they want as long as both agree to it, so that a day after the wedding, both husband and wife...

...watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.

Why can't we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys?

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them,...

Where beautiful women in 1950s culture got married or seduced, in modern culture the beauty gets raped.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves. Critic John Berger's well-known quote has...

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.