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

When values disappear, the first people to suffer are women because people start losing their respect for women.

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.