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Minna Thomas Antrim: Illusion is the...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Illusion is the...

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

Source: In The...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . ....

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Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

I have gone to war too . . . I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you...

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Jeannette Rankin: Men and women...

Jeannette Rankin: Men and women...

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

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Jean Kerr: The real menace...

Jean Kerr: The real menace...

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a...

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Abigail Van Buren: People who fight...

Abigail Van Buren: People who fight...

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Source: Universal Press...

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Rona Barrett: Pick your enemies...

Rona Barrett: Pick your enemies...

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

Source: In An...

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Clementine Paddleford: A tiny radish...

Clementine Paddleford: A tiny radish...

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Source: Recalled on...

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Jill Johnston: The inmates are...

Jill Johnston: The inmates are...

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

Source: On Bellevue...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: The age looks...

Mary Ashton Livermore: The age looks...

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg...

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Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Source: In...

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Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined...

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Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged,...

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Susan Faludi: As it turns...

Susan Faludi: As it turns...

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment...

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Helen Rowland: Home' is any...

Helen Rowland: Home' is any...

'Home' is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Source: Reflections of a...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself...

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Julie Burchill: As with most...

Julie Burchill: As with most...

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more...

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Suzanne LaFollette: Laws are felt...

Suzanne LaFollette: Laws are felt...

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Source:...

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Oriana Fallaci: To have realized...

Oriana Fallaci: To have realized...

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

Source: Letter to a Child Never...

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