“ Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perh… Virginia Woolf
“ Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions o… Salman Rushdie
“ He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimoni… John Irving
“ Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist. Sten Nadolny
“ Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. Well, there you go, she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. If you don’t think you’re hurt, then you aren’t, she said. So m… Jeannette Walls
“ But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my arms and in my bed, I longed she would open her legs to me Ian Mcewan
“ Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male – I hesitate to say ‘man’ – or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations… Tamora Pierce
“ Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything. Jacky Fleming
“ When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible. Jacky Fleming
