You know, if you was prettied up a bit you might almost look like a female. Yellow Sky 1948 starring Gregory Peck & Anne Baxter & Richard Widmark & Robert Arthur & Harry Morgan & John Russell & Charles Kemper et al, director William A Wellman, Peck
I forgot how different it was ... Being female. I haven’t been one for over eighty years. All this attention ... Actually, I find it quite enjoyable. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e5: Babel, Dax
I still prefer a Ferengi female who never wears clothes, never talks back and never plays Tongo. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e7: Rules of Acquisition, Rom
What’s amazing when you look at Disney and Disney movies over the years is how little the image of females has really changed. You still have the same highly sexualised female body with the big breasts, the tiny waists, the fluttering eyelashes, the coy expressions, the seductress. These images seem very similar over the years, and even whether in animal form, you’ve got this very seductive little female animal. This presents people with a kind of notion of what femininity is about. This is not a mirror on society, this is not reflecting who women really are, or what females really are, it is basically constructing notions of what femininity is. Dr Gail Dines
I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity. Marilyn Monroe
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful. Anna Garlin Spencer, Woman’s Share in Social Culture, 1912
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling, The Female of the Species, 1911
All of high society was here ... Was she a suicide mission or was it simply a stunning stunt? ... The cause had gained a martyr. Amanda Vickery, Suffragettes: Forever! The Story of Women and Power ***** BBC 2015
That saw women fire-bomb buildings. Assault. Or commit acts of terrorism across the country. ibid.
A fight that is centuries old. And a fight I believe that is still going on today. ibid.
300 wife fairs ... Wives fairs were technically against the law ... The woman was the property of her husband, so why should he not sell her like a piece of meat? ibid.
Rape in marriage was not made a crime until 1991. ibid.
A petition: these women were Levellers, a radical political movement that argued the new Republic of England should be democratic. ibid.
The worse crime a woman could commit in the eighteenth century was the murder of her husband. ibid.
1958 until they were legitimately permitted to sit in the House of Lords. ibid.
Today Mary Wollstonecraft is fated as Britain’s first feminist. She’s so hip. ibid.
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women was now smeared with the blood of the guillotine. Its brief moment was past ... She suffered a tabloid-style destruction. ibid.
The mother of the movement for women’s rights. ibid.
‘Charity is the call of the lady, the care of the poor her profession.’ ibid Moore
With a lawyer for a husband, and a politician for a lover, Caroline knew full well that legal rights had to be secured by act of parliament. Amanda Vickery, Suffragettes: Forever! The Story of Women and Power II
It wasn’t just women who were politically disadvantaged in nineteenth century Britain ... Only one in five men could vote. ibid.
‘The real question is whether it is right and expedient that one half of the human race should pass through life in a state of forced subordination to the other half.’ ibid. John Stuart Mill
Another Victorian giant John Ruskin ... A critic and social thinker. ibid.
The Contagious Diseases Acts encouraged the arrest, detention and screening of women as young as thirteen on suspicion they might be infected with a sexually transmitted disease. ibid.
They did not have the right to be awarded a degree. ibid.
The spectacle of the female cyclist. ibid.
The Conservative Party’s Primrose League. ibid.
They remained second-class citizens ... The injustice of sexual discrimination. ibid.
What the Match-girls did next: In July 1888 1,400 women and girls walked out through the gates of the Bryant and May match factory here in Bow East London. ibid.
Just what could be achieved with direct action: a new type of political protest was born. Banner: National Federation of Women Workers. ibid.
The militant suffrage campaign had stirred up a vocal opposition. Amanda Vickery, Suffragettes: Forever! The Story of Women and Power III
The growing popularity of female football ... Women’s teams were banned. ibid.
Fundamental sexual inequalities still remain. ibid.
‘I thought anyone who had breasts was a feminist.’ Evocateur: The Morton Downie jr Movie, Mort’s chat show, CNN 2015
Progress was evident in the last Congress of the American Labour Union in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Karl Marx
What do you see when you look at me? Do you see a woman? … Now, as I take an extreme final step in my own transition, I want to explore views on what it means to be a woman. And why how we define ourselves has become so controversial. What Makes a Woman? Channel 4 2018
TERFS = Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists. ibid.