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![Jane Austen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651510251i/1265._UX200_CR0,4,200,200_.jpg)
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
![Charlotte Brontë](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1335001351i/1036615._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
![Mary Wollstonecraft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1228515449i/1853305._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
![Mary Wollstonecraft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1228515449i/1853305._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
![Malala Yousafzai](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1684466264i/7064545._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”
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![Jostein Gaarder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1546539876i/1388082._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”
― Sophie’s World
― Sophie’s World
![Malala Yousafzai](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1684466264i/7064545._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”
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![Muhammad Ali Jinnah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1370576671i/792644._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
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![Maya Angelou](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1379017377i/3503._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
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![Muhammad Ali Jinnah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1370576671i/792644._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”
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![Caitlin Moran](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1340897771i/939363._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“These days, however, I am much calmer - since I realised that it’s technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn’t be allowed to have a debate on women’s place in society. You’d be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor - biting down on a wooden spoon, so as not to disturb the men’s card game - before going back to quick-liming the dunny. This is why those female columnists in the Daily Mail - giving daily wail against feminism - amuse me. They paid you £1,600 for that, dear, I think. And I bet it’s going in your bank account, and not your husband’s. The more women argue loudly, against feminism, the more they both prove it exists and that they enjoy its hard-won privileges.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
![Mahatma Gandhi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1356810912i/5810891._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.”
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![Diana Forbes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1568996911i/16857084._UX200_CR0,3,200,200_.jpg)
“I felt hot under my Mutton sleeves. "I just wish he'd have the decency to say whatever he came to say in front of his wife."
"Perhaps his wife is busy today."
"She shouldn't be." His wife should track him like a bloodhound.”
― Mistress Suffragette
"Perhaps his wife is busy today."
"She shouldn't be." His wife should track him like a bloodhound.”
― Mistress Suffragette
![Louise O'Neill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1608092192i/8110797._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We teach our girls how not to get raped with a sense of doom, a sense that we are fighting a losing battle. When I was writing this novel, friend after friend came to me telling me of something that had happened to them. A hand up their skirt, a boy who wouldn’t take no for an answer, a night where they were too drunk to give consent but they think it was taken from them anyway. We shared these stories with one another and it was as if we were discussing some essential part of being a woman, like period cramps or contraceptives. Every woman or girl who told me these stories had one thing in common: shame. ‘I was drunk . . . I brought him back to my house . . . I fell asleep at that party . . . I froze and I didn’t tell him to stop . . .’ My fault. My fault. My fault. When I asked these women if they had reported what had happened to the police, only one out of twenty women said yes. The others looked at me and said, ‘No. How could I have proved it? Who would have believed me?’ And I didn’t have any answer for that.”
― Asking For It
― Asking For It
![Muhammad Ali Jinnah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1370576671i/792644._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
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![Mary Wollstonecraft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1228515449i/1853305._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
![Mary Wollstonecraft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1228515449i/1853305._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
![Steven Pinker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235758085i/3915._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
![Louisa May Alcott](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1200326665i/1315._CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.”
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![Nicholas D. Kristof](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1259109840i/60441._UY200_CR42,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.”
― Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
― Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.”
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![Friedrich Engels](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523865561i/2900919._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.”
― The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
― The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
![Sheryl Sandberg](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1492801158i/5333595._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
![Rebecca Solnit](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535567225i/15811._UY200_CR43,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”
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![Aysha Taryam](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1514112679i/5366394._UX200_CR0,77,200,200_.jpg)
“The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.”
― The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
― The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
![Shirley Tallman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1269980001i/125752._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.”
― Murder on Nob Hill
― Murder on Nob Hill
![Antonia Fraser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1252040064i/6582._UX200_CR0,52,200,200_.jpg)
“[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.”
― The Wives of Henry VIII
― The Wives of Henry VIII
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