Die Unterwerfung der Frauen Quotes

“We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion, or any individual for another individual, what is and what is not their "proper sphere." The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.”
― Harriet Taylor Mill, Enfranchisement of women: Enriched edition. Championing Gender Equality: A Call for Women's Enfranchisement

“When, however, we ask why the existence of one-half the species should be merely ancillary to that of the other—why each woman should be a mere appendage to a man, allowed to have no interests of her won, that there may be nothing to compete in her mind with his interests and his pleasure; the only reason which can be given is, that men like it.”
― Harriet Taylor Mill, Enfranchisement of women: Enriched edition. Championing Gender Equality: A Call for Women's Enfranchisement