Quote

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.