Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Men are irrelevant.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for changes still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.