“Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.Louisa May Alcott
“You may tempt the upper classes With your villainous demitasses, But Heaven will protect the working girl. Edgar Smith
“Woman’s degradation is in man’s idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“The moral regeneration of mankind will only really commence, when the most fundamental of the social relations [marriage] is placed under the rule of equal justice, and when human beings learn to cultivate their strongest sympathy with an equal in rights and in cultivation.John Stuart Mill
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what Feminism is: I only know that people call me a Feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West