For what is done

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

Because I am a

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

Everybody counts in applying

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

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 test for whether

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. Bella Abzug