Episode 19: “The Morality of Birth Control” by Margaret Sanger
“Every woman should be absolute mistress of her own body.”
Episode 18: “The Fundamental Principle of a Republic” by Anna Howard Shaw
“Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men’s work at half men’s wages”
Episode 17: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”
Episode 16: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.”
Episode 15: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
“How is it possible that the Teacher talked in this manner with a woman…”
Episode 14: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
“legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances…”
Episode 13: “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth
“I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”
Episode 12: Speeches from The Seneca Falls Convention
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”
Episode 11: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, by Sarah Grimke
“I am in search of truth; and no obstacle shall prevent my prosecuting that search.”
Episode 10: On the Equality of the Sexes, by Judith Sargent Murray
“Thus, if a man is superior to a woman because he’s bigger, then a cow is superior to a man.”