Men, Women Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. - Mary Wollstonecraft
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell
It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that. - Gabriela Sabatini
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. - C. S. Lewis
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. - Bette Davis
Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot. - Jessica Hagedorn