
“You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.”—Margaret Thatcher
“I do not wish [women] to have power over men, but over themselves.” —Mary Wollstonecraft
“Disguise our bondage as we will, ’tis woman, woman, rules us still.” —Thomas Moore
“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealised into powerlessness.” —Erica Jong
“It takes a woman 20 years to make a man of her son, and another woman 20 minutes to make a fool of him.” —Helen Rowland
“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role, then we are lost indeed.” —Germaine Greer
“The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it’.” —Genesis 3:12
“Women now figure so prominently in business and industrial life that steps should be taken to bring the order of things into harmony therewith.” —BC Forbes
Images: Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary, Erica, Edna, Bc Forbes : Getty Images Alanis, Splash News / Newscom
First Published: Jun 25, 2016, 06:17
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