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“Some things just push a man's buttons. This goes beyond what we say-and into how we say it.”
Source : FaceBook post by Shaunti Feldhahn from Sep 02, 2016
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“When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.”
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“Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. I've seen a lot of those articles and I thought they were unreasonable when I was in school, but they're getting a little bit out of hand now. We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity.”
Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
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“I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.”
Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
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“A person in my position has to restrain himself.”
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“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
Source : Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.
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“There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.”
Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books