“: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.”

“I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's ri...”

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”

“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”

“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”

“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”

“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”

“Woman is at once apple and serpent.”

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”

“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”

“The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.”