“Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.”

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Women want total freedom or rather – to call things by their names – total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with?

A flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.

When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection.

Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

It’s tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, ‘Oh, look, another quirky girl.’

I thought pregnancy would give me very strong & binary feelings about “womanhood” but truly it has leveled my perception of gender entirely.

Patriarchy has no gender.

Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.

Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.

A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.