Arguing for woman suffrage at an anniversary celebration of the Equal Rights Association (12 May 1869); as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2 (1882) by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
Mona Sahlin about the leader of Centerpartiet, Maud Olofsson, in the Swedish radio program Ekot, September 10, 2006.
a fake quote debunked on several websites, including metabunk.org https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-theres-a-plot-in-this-country-to-enslave-every-man-woman-and-child-jfk.t319/
Misattributed
“Even if your son tries to use his power to save a woman, if he fails, that power will implode.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 241
[Martha Mitchell, Saturday Evening Post, Fall 1971, 243, 2, 50-53]
Source: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 3, p. 109
Context: The outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." And if, when reason has said its say, still some obstinate emotion remains, some love of England dropped into a child's ears by the cawing of rooks in an elm tree, by the splash of waves on a beach, or by English voices murmuring nursery rhymes, this drop of pure, if irrational, emotion she will make serve her to give to England first what she desires of peace and freedom for the whole world.
“I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.”
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
Part II, Ch. 4
O Pioneers! (1913)
“What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe”
Source: How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
To Mother Mary, Superior General, Ruille-sur-Loir, 1852-02-18.
Context: ... they wish to make us pay taxes, which is contrary to the laws of the State. We refuse positively. It embarrasses them a little to have women resist them and speak to them about the law. Woman in this country is only yet one fourth of the family. I hope that, through the influence of religion and education, she will eventually become at least one half the "better half."
"Evil with salad and a nice red" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-kass-planned-parenthood-met-0719-20150719-column.html (19 July 2015), Chicago Tribune, Illinois
