Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
No emancipation without that of society.