Favorite Quotes

Feminism & Equality:

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.
- Liz Stanley and Sue Wise

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
- Betty Rollin

Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.
- Nancy Linn-Desmond




Beauty:

I am beautiful as I am. I am the shape that was gifted. My breasts are no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager. My hips are wider than that of a fashion model's. For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived.
- Cindy Olsen


Other:

Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind.
- Mercy B. Jackson