Eliza Jane Thompson Quotes

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

During the ages, no rebellion has been of like importance with that of Woman against the tyranny of Church and State; none has had its far reaching effects.

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment on become your superiors.

If we should see ladies attending conventions, traveling about the country in great carts drawn by many yoke of oxen, waving their pocket handkerchiefs to assembled multitudes, it would greatly shock our sensibilities.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.

Women are sacred.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias

Women are a great civilizing force in any society and when they are repressed things don’t work very well.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created in the human mind.