Women

“Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men’s work at half men’s wages”

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”

“How is it possible that the Teacher talked in this manner with a woman…”

“I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”

“I am in search of truth; and no obstacle shall prevent my prosecuting that search.”

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body…”

“the constant inventing of the wheel”

“in dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary”

“Patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end.”