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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.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

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.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

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.'

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.