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They’re confident or strong.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé", "slug": "faridah-abike-iyimide", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/faridah-abike-iyimide" }, "book": { "title": "Ace of Spades", "slug": "ace-of-spades", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/faridah-abike-iyimide/ace-of-spades" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 27, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" }, { "name": "stereotypes", "slug": "stereotypes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stereotypes" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Faridah_%C3%80b%C3%ADk%C3%A9-%C3%8Dy%C3%ADm%C3%ADd%C3%A9#Ace_of_Spades_(2021)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:29" }, { "id": "1927bf3b-2112-4ab0-a4f0-21ee281a74f3", "slug": "but-there-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare/the-girl-with-the-louding-voice/but-there-are", "text": "But there are words in my head, many things I want to say. I want to tell Ms. Tia I am sorry I made her come here. I want to ask why the doctor didn’t come too. Why didn’t he come and get a beating like his wife? If it takes two people to make a baby, why only one person, the woman, is suffering when the baby is not coming? Is it because she is the one with breast and the stomach for being pregnant? Or because of what? I want to ask, to scream, why are the women in Nigeria seem to be suffering for everything more than the men?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Abi Dare", "slug": "abi-dare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare" }, "book": { "title": "The Girl with the Louding Voice", "slug": "the-girl-with-the-louding-voice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare/the-girl-with-the-louding-voice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abi_Dar%C3%A9#The_Girl_with_the_Louding_Voice_(2020)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:21" }, { "id": "93beed2c-5a22-4cac-93f8-c7e18b412763", "slug": "for-the-triumph", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-kuliscioff/the-monopoly-of-man/for-the-triumph", "text": "For the triumph of the cause of my sex, I hope only that men will be slightly less intolerant and women slightly more supportive of each other. Perhaps, at that point, the prophecy of the greatest poet of our century, Victor Hugo, will be realized: he predicted of woman what William Ewart Gladstone predicted of the factory worker-that the nineteenth century would be the \"Century of the Woman.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Anna Kuliscioff", "slug": "anna-kuliscioff", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-kuliscioff" }, "book": { "title": "The Monopoly of Man", "slug": "the-monopoly-of-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-kuliscioff/the-monopoly-of-man" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "solidarity", "slug": "solidarity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/solidarity" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anna_Kuliscioff#The_Monopoly_of_Man_(1894)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:59" }, { "id": "bf7174ac-c833-4a6a-9ea1-cd60fdd3bcfb", "slug": "all-the-dispossessed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-kuliscioff/the-monopoly-of-man/all-the-dispossessed", "text": "All the dispossessed and pariahs of society are on the move; they beg for some light, air, and a life that accords with human dignity. It is therefore only natural that, in our century, a serious and vast movement has emerged among the last and most numerous of pariahs who form half of humanity-that is, women.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Anna Kuliscioff", "slug": "anna-kuliscioff", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-kuliscioff" }, "book": { "title": "The Monopoly of Man", "slug": "the-monopoly-of-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-kuliscioff/the-monopoly-of-man" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "dignity", "slug": "dignity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dignity" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anna_Kuliscioff#The_Monopoly_of_Man_(1894)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:58" }, { "id": "fe85c26c-cb0a-4d74-99e6-32c1bf935afc", "slug": "i-refuse-to-accept", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo/a-nation-of-women/i-refuse-to-accept", "text": "I refuse to accept the assertion of any historian who erroneously believes that women have no right to use their freedom without being considered corrupt or immoral, while men have been able to do whatever they want and indulge the most absurd and ridiculous whims, without being judged, repudiated or prevented from going where they choose, with no concern about not being paid attention to, respected or sought after. We are going to put an end to those unequal laws-where the few have a lot and the many have a little-in order to finally secure peace for the just and achieve the truth and justice that our sex deserves.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Luisa Capetillo", "slug": "luisa-capetillo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo" }, "book": { "title": "A Nation of Women", "slug": "a-nation-of-women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo/a-nation-of-women" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Luisa_Capetillo#A_Nation_of_Women_(1911)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:09" }, { "id": "bc6d3171-5d87-4974-940d-4e6997e67404", "slug": "women-by-force", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo/a-nation-of-women/women-by-force", "text": "Women, by force of will and energy, are quite capable of doing certain jobs that they previously had been denied. This theory is constantly disputed by those who claim women's inferiority due to sexual difference, which, it is said, seems to be an immutable law of nature. But there is nothing more false than to attempt in this way to uphold the permanent superiority of men.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Luisa Capetillo", "slug": "luisa-capetillo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo" }, "book": { "title": "A Nation of Women", "slug": "a-nation-of-women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo/a-nation-of-women" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Luisa_Capetillo#A_Nation_of_Women_(1911)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:09" }, { "id": "9722887b-cc7b-4c65-a090-083ba0e24139", "slug": "the-only-thing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo/a-nation-of-women/the-only-thing", "text": "The only thing we want to put forth is that women must acquire greater freedom and rights. The current system, with all its errors, is sustained by the ignorance and slavery of women.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Luisa Capetillo", "slug": "luisa-capetillo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo" }, "book": { "title": "A Nation of Women", "slug": "a-nation-of-women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo/a-nation-of-women" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Luisa_Capetillo#A_Nation_of_Women_(1911)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:09" }, { "id": "6158d5db-48dc-40a7-8392-2dca92bf2cd4", "slug": "mankind-has-in", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x/mankind-has-in", "text": "Mankind has in it a crushing need to feel superior. This doesn’t have to bother the very small minority who actually are superior, but it sure troubles the controlling majority who are not. If you can’t be really good at anything, then the only way to be able to prove you are superior is to make someone else inferior. It is this rampaging need in humanity which has, since pre-history, driven a man to stand on the neck of his neighbor, a nation to enslave another, a race to tread on a race. But it is also what men have done to women. Did they actually find them inferior to begin with, and learn from that to try to feel superior to other things outside—other races, religions, nationalities, occupations? Or was it the other way around: did men make women inferior for the same reason they tried to dominate the outsider? Which is cause, which effect?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Theodore Sturgeon", "slug": "theodore-sturgeon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon" }, "book": { "title": "Venus Plus X", "slug": "venus-plus-x", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/venus-plus-x" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 115, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "pride", "slug": "pride", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#Venus_Plus_X_(1960)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:49" }, { "id": "912063a7-9551-4caf-b3ed-ce9cb5de514d", "slug": "the-history-of-mens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/the-history-of-mens", "text": "The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Virginia Woolf", "slug": "virginia-woolf", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf" }, "book": { "title": "A Room of One's Own", "slug": "a-room-of-ones-own", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 72, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "history", "slug": "history", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#A_Room_of_One's_Own_(1929)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:16" }, { "id": "a9bcd3b5-d465-40c8-a3f7-fdf177305e6b", "slug": "that-man-over", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sojourner-truth/aint-i-a-woman/that-man-over", "text": "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man, when I could get it — and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! 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And now they are asking to do it, the men had better let them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sojourner Truth", "slug": "sojourner-truth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sojourner-truth" }, "book": { "title": "Ain't I A Woman?", "slug": "aint-i-a-woman", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sojourner-truth/aint-i-a-woman" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth#Ain't_I_a_Woman%3F_Speech_(1851)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:58" }, { "id": "2e92bb68-cbf6-4155-9831-b96181a472d3", "slug": "that-little-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sojourner-truth/aint-i-a-woman/that-little-man", "text": "That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! 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The men will gladly consent to it! The more women want to resemble them, the less women will govern them, and then men will truly be the masters.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "women's equal rights", "slug": "womens-equal-rights", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/womens-equal-rights" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_V", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:36" } ] }