
2010s, Democracy Now! interview (2011)
Source: Zimbabwe: Gender Equality A Right (2010)
2010s, Democracy Now! interview (2011)
“Men do not move mountains; it is only necessary to create the illusion that mountains move.”
As quoted in The Great Illusion, 1900-1914, Oron J. Hale, Harper & Row (1971) p. 109
Undated
The Progress of Fifty Years (1893)
Context: Whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it. However much it may have been resented, women accepted the idea of their intellectual inequality. I asked my brother: "Can girls learn Greek?"
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
“A Dialogue with Simone de Beauvoir,” in Betty Friedan, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement, (New York: Random House, 1976), p. 397 https://books.google.com/books?id=iv4-Qy82BJ0C&pg=PA397&lpg=PA397.
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