History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men

And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman's life is that

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.