“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”
More from Susan B. Anthony on Gender
“The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?”
“I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.”
“The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.”
Others on Gender
Simone de Beauvoir
6 quotes“: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.”
Gloria Steinem
3 quotes“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”
Alice Walker
1 quote“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”
Erica Jong
1 quote“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
Golda Meir
1 quote“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”
H. L. Mencken
1 quote“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”
Heinrich Heine
1 quote“Woman is at once apple and serpent.”
Joseph Addison
1 quote“As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.”
Joseph Conrad
1 quote“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
Julian Barnes
1 quote“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
William Butler
1 quote“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”
Margaret Thatcher
1 quote“It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”