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Post by Tamrin on May 20, 2010 6:42:25 GMT 10
I deny that anyone knows, or can know, the nature of the two sexes, as long as they have only been seen in their present relation to one another. If men had ever been found in society without women, or women without men, or if there had been a society of men and women in which the women were not under the control of the men, something might have been positively known about the mental and moral differences which may be inherent in the nature of each. What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing — the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others
John Stuart Mill (Born this day 1806)
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Post by Tamrin on May 23, 2010 8:54:42 GMT 10
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman
Margaret Fuller (Born this day 1810)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 14, 2010 7:28:12 GMT 10
Men and women are more similar than most people believe. The differences that occur are probably taught. I don't really see us as humans in two camps
Fiona McGregor ("Hindsight" in Sunday Life, p. 38, Sun-Herald supplement, 13 June 2010)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 16, 2010 6:33:37 GMT 10
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex
Katharine Graham (Born this day 1917)
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of Masculinity, all the more trenchant for its being lost
Joyce Carol Oates (Born this day 1938)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 18, 2010 7:10:38 GMT 10
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... how much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex, to talk of male and female education and of male and female schools
Susan B Anthony (Fined this day 1873, for trying to vote for President)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 1, 2010 7:27:27 GMT 10
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity
You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing
Baroness Dudevant, a.k.a. "George Sand" (Born this day 1804)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 4, 2010 10:50:06 GMT 10
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, the Rights of Woman merit
Bro. Robert Burns (Made a Mason this day 1781)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 5, 2010 7:23:41 GMT 10
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible
Clara Zetkin (Born this day 1857)
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 3, 2010 7:07:19 GMT 10
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women
Sarah Orne Jewett (Born this day 1849)
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 26, 2010 13:04:12 GMT 10
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so
Andrea Dworkin (Born this day 1946)
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