“No, the Soviet woman is not yet free.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Ch. 7,
Context: No, the Soviet woman is not yet free. Complete equality before the law has so far given infinitely more to the women of the upper strata, representatives of bureaucratic, technical, pedagogical and, in general, intellectual work, than to the working women and yet more the peasant women. So long as society is incapable of taking upon itself the material concern for the family, the mother can successfully fulfill a social function only on the condition that she has in her service a white slave: nurse, servant, cook, etx.
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Source: Woman and the New Race, (1922), Chapter 8, "Birth Control; A Parents' Problem or Woman's?"
“Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.”
Source: Dracula
“Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.”
Journal (June 1860)
“It will yet be the proud boast of woman that she never contributed a line to the Bible.”
As quoted in The Bible (1901) by John Remsburg, p. 409
“Of all the sex this certain truth is known,
No woman yet was ever content with one.”
So ben ch'in tutto il gran femineo stuolo
Una non è che stia contenta a un solo.
Canto XXVIII, stanza 50 (tr. J. Hoole)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Of all the sex this certain truth is known,
No woman yet was ever content with one.”
Book XXVIII, line 370
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
The Life And Teachings Of Muhammad: Two Lectures by Annie Besant http://hpb.narod.ru/LifeTeachingsOfMuhammadAB.html
Love's Coming of Age (1896)
Context: There is no solution except the freedom of woman—which means of course also the freedom of the masses of the people, men and women, and the ceasing altogether of economic slavery. There is no solution which will not include the redemption of the terms “free woman” and “free love” to their true and rightful significance. Let every woman whose heart bleeds for the sufferings of her sex, hasten to declare herself and to constitute herself, as far as she possibly can, a free woman. Let her accept the term with all the odium that belongs to it; let her insist on her right to speak, dress, think, act, and above all to use her sex, as she deems best; let her face the scorn and ridicule; let her “lose her own life” if she likes; assured that only so can come deliverance, and that only when the free woman is honored will the prostitute cease to exist. And let every man who really would respect his counterpart, entreat her also to act so; let him never by word or deed tempt her to grant as a bargain what can only be precious as a gift; let him see her with pleasure stand a little aloof; let him help her to gain her feet; so at last, by what slight sacrifices on his part such a course may involve, will it dawn upon him that he has gained a real companion and helpmate on life’s journey.