Suzanne Fields Quotes
Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.
Fields, Suzanne. Syndicated column. The Washington Times, News World Communications, 2004.
Jinnah was a modern Islamist who saw the role of females in a modern context. He, like the Indian Hindu leaders were in a sense products of the West and Western government and education. He would be very surprised that in his Pakistan men can murder their female relatives who they believe have dishonored the family, or that women would not be educated in the Madrassas, or that authorities could sentence a female relative of a man deemed guilty of seduction to be gang raped, but that is what happens in modern Pakistan. Jinnah and many of the early leaders believed that their new government could modernize Islam but the control and influence went the other way. Pakistan became a religiously dominated autocracy rather than the democracy that Jinnah foresaw.
Marcus Porcius Cato. This quotation has had two different interpretations over time. One was that women if they received equality of treatment and voting would have an advantage for they also had their traditional “feminine wiles” and their sexuality, hence would dominate men. The second was a also a warning but based on the fact that women were superior in many ways, and given an equal chance, would excel men. The later interpretation is argued by some who point to the 2011 American data that shows more females than males graduating from high school and college, and females outnumber males in medical, law and several other professional schools. With the exception of a few Roman men, most heeded Cato’s warning and never took a chance on female equality.
The Greek culture was quite sexist. However, all cultures had observed strong women, some who ruled and others where wives or mistresses of rulers were very influential if not powerful.
This absurd statement was actually believed by many colonial Americans—male and female--as Addison’s Spectator was a very popular publication in Colonial America. The claim that women who are interested in political affairs and discusses them will rapidly lose her beauty had no basis in fact. None the less, the quotation was sufficient to intimidate many colonial women from discussing politics with her family or friends.
This is a question our women must answer; upon their loins depends the future destiny of the nation.
At the beginning of the United States, the Founding Fathers had seen fit not to restrict a woman’s right to birth control and abortion, both of which were prevalent in Colonial America albeit not very reliable or safe. The first efforts to control abortion were in the 1820s and 1830s. Storer was the first anti-abortion activist. His major issue was that abortion diminished America’s fertility rate and with the high fertility of the immigrants, the native Americans would be overwhelmed.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Due to the 6 to 1 male to female ratio in the American Colonies, women were in a very good position to marry whom they chose and often married “above their station”. This quote is the dialogue of a lower class colonial window who inherited American land as a result of her husband’s death. In the play she marries twice above her station each time accumulating more and more wealth. Although this was a play, it was based on Bacon’s Rebellion and life in the American colonies around 1690.
