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For," the outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country.
- Virginia Woolf
That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge.
- Virginia Woolf
Mr. Oscar Browning was a great figure in Cambridge at one time, and used to examine the students at Girton and Newnham. Mr. Oscar Browning was wont to declare "that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that, irrespective of the marks he might give, the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.
- Virginia Woolf
There is no mark on the wall to measure the precise height of women. There are no yard measures neatly divided into the fractions of an inch that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter or fidelity of a sister or the capacity of a housekeeper.
- Virginia Woolf
Have you any notion of how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
- Virginia Woolf
But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.
- Charles Dickens
In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.
- Marianne Williamson
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- Oscar Wilde
The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.
- John Lennon
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
- Hillary Clinton
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
- Gloria Steinem
Women are powerful and dangerous.
- Audre Lorde