“ Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one… Mary Allsebrook
“ Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them. Alison Weir
“ For thousands of years, servants and slaves--or in lesser households, wives and daughters--were stuck with the same pestles and sieves, with few innovations. This technological stagnation reflects a h… Bee Wilson
“ They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints. Alison Weir
“ I pray every single moment of my life not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. Susan B. Anthony
“ I was thinking about the need to have a feminist bookstore, a place for women to buy books about women. Because in those days, if you would go to a regular bookstore and ask about books for women, one… Kristen Hogan
“ Right now, many female activists in their forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties are gazing thoughtfully into the glowing embers of lesbian culture. For us, this is still an active campfir… Bonnie J Morris
“ When my brother,…, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult… Murasaki Shikibu
“ The less that women are visible as a research subject, the less we are likely to learn about lesbians. Bonnie J Morris
“ The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. Betty Friedan
“ The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed. Germaine Greer
“ If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. Germaine Greer
“ The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be… Germaine Greer
“ What I wanted was for them to have a grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American history that belongs to the Wright Brothers and the astronauts, to Alexander Hamilton and Martin… Margot Lee Shetterly
