“The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it's called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to which nature and some doctrine—religious doctrine condemns them, and then if you'll throw in a handful of seeds perhaps and some credit, the floor of everything in that village, not just poverty, but education, health, and optimism will increase. It doesn't matter; try it in Bangladesh, try it in Bolivia, it works—works all the time. Name me one religion that stands for that, or ever has. Wherever you look in the world and you try to remove the shackles of ignorance and disease stupidity from women, it is invariably the clericy that stands in the way, or in the case of—now, furthermore, if you are going to grant this to Catholic charities, say, which I would hope are doing a lot of work in Africa, if I was a member of a church that had preached that AIDS was not as bad as condoms, I'd be putting some conscience money into Africa too, I must say.”

Preface
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)

Flowers of Wisdom

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Cosmopolitan (April 2010).

Woman Hating, ch. 9, p. 23, E.P. Dutton, New York (1974).

December 6, 2014, Gloria Allred: The Battle Over Sexual Assault is the ‘Civil Rights Movement of Our Time’, May 15, 2014, Time magazine, Gloria Allred http://time.com/100055/campus-sexual-assault-gloria-allred/,

1974
1970's, interview, K. Horsfield & L. Blumenthal

As quoted in "God's gift to women" by Barbara Ellen in The Guardian http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/fashion/story/0,,2168350,00.html (16 September 2007)