Slave Women

Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or women:

    “...I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.”
    —Golda Meir (1898–1978)

    “... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage—only for appendages and dead weights to husbands—of bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselves—is an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin.”
    —Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)