Top Self Determination Quotes
It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...
Antonia Fraser
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common law, empowerment, fathers, feminism, feudalism, gender, guardianship, history, husbands, independence
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of...
Virginia Woolf
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dignity, double standards, empowerment, encroachment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, liberty, misogyny, morality
Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother:...
Charlotte Bronte
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empowerment, eve, gender, god, godliness, greatness, independence, nature, self determination, strength