Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
Camille Paglia
Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation of women»
Men’s opposition to women’s emancipation
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf
Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation of women»
Result of 50 years of emancipation
As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
Ian Fleming
Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation of women»
She really desires to be free
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
Emma Goldman
Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation of women»
The greatest egoistic movement
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
Ellen Key
Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation of women»
The men would be compelled to grant it
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull
Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation of women»
Their mystery
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
Grace Kelly
Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation of women»
There is so much work to be done
Why are we not valuing the word ’feminism’ when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
Annie Lennox
Quotes and wishes: «Emancipation of women»
Women in Afghanistan
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.