Sylvia Marcus

“There is no higher religion than the truth.”
― H. P. Blavatsky

“أرى الحكمة فى التخفف من هذا العبء الثقيل , ثم لا أفعل شيئاً فى سبيل الخلاص منه, الحق أنى لا أدرى كيف يظل الإنسان مشدوداً إلى ما ليس يرضيه , ثم يظل مشدوداً إليه برغم أنفه وهو عالم كل العلم أن الروابط التى تشده لا تزيد على نفخات من هواء لو سدُّ عليها الطريق لحظة واحدة لانتهى كل شئ .”
― زكي نجيب محمود, قصة نفس

“Gracious Creator of the whole human race! hast thou created such a being as woman, who can trace thy wisdom in thy works, and feel that thou alone art by thy nature, exalted above her-for no better purpose? Can she believe that she was only made to submit to man her equal; a being, who, like her, was sent into the world to acquire virtue? Can she consent to be occupied merely to please him; merely to adorn the earth, when her soul is capable of rising to thee? And can she rest supinely dependent on man for reason, when she ought to mount with him the arduous steeps of knowledge?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowlegde of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper; outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of proptiety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, every thing else is needless, for, at least, twenty years of their lives.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft