I would have girls
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. Elizabeth Blackwell
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government. Frances Farenthold
All men would be tyrants if they could. Daniel Defoe
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’; They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’ Clare Boothe Luce
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings Cheris Kramarae
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government. Carrie Chapman Catt
For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who – against all the odds – got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero – Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan … Read more
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. Betty Friedan
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. Bella Abzug