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“If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.”
"The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?"
— Susan B. Anthony
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
"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."
"One is not born, but rather becomes a woman."
— Simone de Beauvoir
"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."
— William Butler
"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."
— Sylvia Plath
"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
— Susan Sontag
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less."
"Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines."
": woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be."
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
"One is not born a woman - one becomes one."
"Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man"
— Sheryl Sandberg
"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman."
— Pearl Buck
"The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls."
— Michelle Obama
"It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs."
— Margaret Thatcher
"Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance."
— Julian Barnes
"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."
— Golda Meir
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."
— Gloria Steinem
"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space."