Women S Freedom Quotes

“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. For the demands of our released expectations lead us inevitably into actions which will help bring our lives into accordance with our needs, our knowledge, our desires. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for or accept many facets of our oppression as women.”
― Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

“Daphne tried to convey to him that the likelihood of degrees for women at Oxford was a matter for satisfaction, perhaps, but hardly for excitement or ratification. Women's accomplishments in the University had long been equal, if not superior, to men's; degrees were not a privilege, they were simply what women deserved - their due, their right. She became very animated as she argued on this topic.”
― Vera Brittain, The Dark Tide

“Liberian women are oppressed in the east, the west, south, and in the northern part of Liberia. Some of them are crushed inside, outside the home, in traditional practices (FGM), and are oppressed outside of it.”
― Henry Johnson Jr