“The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.”

-- Adrienne Rich

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

-- Mary Wollstonecraft

“The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that .. women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.”

-- Louise Otto

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

-- Timothy Leary