The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, themore strictlyand heavilyand cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

-Wolf, Naomi
  The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.

   Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

-Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, pt.1, ch.2.

The recruiting field for the militant suffragists is the million of our excess female populationöthat million whichhad better long ago have gone out tomate with its complement of men beyond the sea.

-Wright, SirAlmroth Edward
  Letter to TheTimes, 28 Mar.