A free man is a noble being; a free woman is a contemptible being.
No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
Not from his head was woman took, As made her husband to o'erlook; Not from his feet, as one designed The footstool of the stronger kind; But fashioned for himself, a bride; An equal, taken from his side.
…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.
As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.
The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.
To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.
