Pro Feminist Quotes

• [A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

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  Frederick Douglass

  Spiritual   Men   Air  

  Frederick Douglass (2011). “In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion”, p.237, Cornell University Press

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• Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

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  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men   Should Have   Care  

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

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  Susan B. Anthony

  Abortion   Pro Life   Soul  

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• The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.

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  Joss Whedon

  Men   Soul   Balance  

  Equality Now Tribute Address, delivered 15 May 2006, Men on the Front Lines Honoree

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