Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. – Liz Stanley and Sue Wise

Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind. – Mercy B. Jackson

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Our Girls”