Today Mary Wollstonecraft is feted 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 matchgirls 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 was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. Mary Robinson
You ARE a woman, aren’t you? Prince Philip, Kenya, 1984
‘Women’s rights are a mad wicked folly’. Royal Babylon ***** Queen Victoria
Remember, boy. When it comes to women, you’re never too old for humiliation. My Week with Marilyn 2011 starring Michelle Williams & Kenneth Branagh & Eddie Redmayne & Emma Watson & Dougray Scott & Dominic Cooper & Julia Ormond & Judi Dench & Derek Jacobi & Zoe Wanamaker et al, director Simon Curtis, Olivier
I’m a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they’ve made of me – and that I’ve made of myself – as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman’s and I can’t live up to it. Marilyn Monroe
‘Because they can. They’re allowed to pay women a lower wage than men. All over the country women are getting less because they’re women.’ Made in Dagenham 2010 starring Bob Hoskins & Miranda Richardson & Sally Hawkins & Geraldine James & Rosamund Pike & Andrea Riseborough & Jaime Winstone & Daniel Mays & Richard Schiff & Phil Cornwell et al, director Nigel Cole, Albert
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. Richard Dawkins
One of the unhappiest spectacles to be seen on our streets today is the image of a woman swathed in shapeless black from head to toe, peering out at the world through a tiny slit. The burka is not just an instrument of oppression of women and claustral repression of their liberty and their beauty; not just a token of egregious male cruelty and tragically cowed female submission. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression of women on the basis of notions derived from Sharia law. Khaled Hosseini
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman’ suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerrilla opposition. Victoria Claflin Woodhull
In reaction against the age-old slogan ‘woman is the weaker vessel’, or the still more offensive ‘woman is a divine creature’ we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that ‘a woman is as good as a man’, without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz ... that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. Dorothy L Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
It’s had a very negative impact in the way women are viewed. Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Bible’s Buried Secrets 3/3: The Real Garden of Eden, BBC 2011
And it’s not just Eve who is ultimately condemned. It’s all of womankind. A damning indictment, but we now know that this was never the original intention of the Eden story. ibid.