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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Anne Hutchinson: What from the...

Anne Hutchinson: What from the...

What from the Church at Boston? I know no such church, neither will I own it. Call it the whore and strumpet of...

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Clare Boothe Luce: I don't have...

Clare Boothe Luce: I don't have...

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define...

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Angela Davis: [H]uman beings cannot...

Angela Davis: [H]uman beings cannot...

[H]uman beings cannot be willed and molded into nonexistence.

Source: In Words of...

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Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all...

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Andrea Dworkin: We think that...

Andrea Dworkin: We think that...

We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact,...

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June Singer: The modern man...

June Singer: The modern man...

The modern man needs to rescue himself from cultural provincialism.

Source:...

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Joan L Curcio: Violence in the...

Joan L Curcio: Violence in the...

Violence in the schools: How to proactively prevent and defuse it.

Source: Book...

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Freda Adler: There is another...

Freda Adler: There is another...

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke...

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bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Source: Feminist Theory, ch.1,...

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Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

[T]hose who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: It is easy...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: It is easy...

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

Source: In Boston Globe, 25...

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Margot Asquith: If Kitchener was...

Margot Asquith: If Kitchener was...

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

Source:...

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Louise A Bogan: [Your work] is...

Louise A Bogan: [Your work] is...

[Your work] is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Source: In...

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Emily Dickinson: Faith is a...

Emily Dickinson: Faith is a...

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentleman can see --
But Microscopes are prudent
In an...

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Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.


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Gwendolyn Bennett: Silence is a...

Gwendolyn Bennett: Silence is a...

Silence is a sounding thing
To one who listens hungrily.


Source: Your...

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Corita Kent: Flowers grow out...

Corita Kent: Flowers grow out...

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Source: Moments of 1984, Beacon 1984.
--...

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Beatrice Potter Webb: If I ever...

Beatrice Potter Webb: If I ever...

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the...

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Judith Jamison: We can go...

Judith Jamison: We can go...

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to...

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