woman quotes

A king is always a kingöand a woman always a woman; his authorityand her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.

-Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, pt.1, ch.4.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man, for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

-Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, pt.1, ch.13.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  To the Lighthouse, pt.1, ch.13.

Awoman must have moneyand a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  A Room of One's Own, ch.3.

Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  'Professions forWomen', lecture to the National Society for Women's Service, 21Jan.Woolf's solutionwas to throw the inkpot at theAngel (the embodiment of stereotypedVictorian femininity) whenever she appeared.

The woman voter would be pernicious to the State not only because she could not back her vote by physical force, but also by reason of her intellectual defects.

-Wright, SirAlmroth Edward
  The Unexpurgated Case againstWoman Suffrage, pt.2.

Practically every man feels that there is in woman†an element of unreason which, when you come upon it, summarily puts an end to purely intellectual intercourse.

-Wright, SirAlmroth Edward
  The Unexpurgated Case againstWoman Suffrage, pt.5.

Wit ismore necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

-Wycherley,William
  The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.

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