Episodes 25-27: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
“One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.”
Episode 24: “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating A Caring Economics” by Riane Eisler
“policymakers always seem to find money for control and domination – for prisons, weapons, wars.”
Episode 23: “Open Letter to the Women of the World” and “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” by Eleanor Roosevelt
“We call on the governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more active part”
Episode 22: “Killing the Angel in the House” by Virginia Woolf
“Man must be pleased; but him to please / Is woman’s pleasure”
Episode 21: “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
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…”