It is disgusting that women have to fight for rights to be equal to men as well as fight for reproductive rights which should already have been a right controlled by women because only women have the power to reproduce. ... " This quote to me is important because women had to believe without any doubt that they were and are entitled to political, social and economic equality to men despite society's views and oppression from men who believe the opposite.  ... Her efforts in giving social awareness regarding sexism, equality, the power of sisterhood and the empowerment of women is ...

• Word Count: 2997
• Approx Pages: 12
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Her simplest definition of poetry is "heightened speech"; she believes that truly inspired poetry is "extraordinary speech that at times comes through a poet with extraordinary power" (Moyers p. 272). The following two poems strike like lightning; readers experience extraordinary power as they encounter each poem. ... The reader gets an intimate look at the human suffering of an alcoholic's family and the refusal of those in power to halt the molestation and beatings. ... I got there before the boys did, he knows, hearing" The poet creates a new image of the predator as an elder...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"This quote from Wollstonecraft beautifully argues exactly for what women needed. ... "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing." ... This quote shows how men can deceive women and woo them into a manipulative relationship only to just keep them put away and not treat them with a mind and opinions of their own. ...

• Word Count: 2740
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a result of this behavior, WB may be seen as a threat to the medieval hierarchy of power relations between the sexes because she violates the conception of what woman should be according to medieval tradition (Biebel 64). ... The Wife describes her verbal violence to her husbands, questions what she has been told, argues with authority and tells a tale in which victory is won by a woman's power of discourse. ... WB quotes scriptures to support her remarriages. ... She quotes the Christian principles to be fruitful and multiply. ...

• Word Count: 2959
• Approx Pages: 12
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"Behind every great man, there is a great woman." Meryl Frost first said this in 1945 about his wife. It has since been said countless times over the years, and in countless languages and variations. It is not the first quote in which a husband gives credit to his wife for making him a better man; a...

• Word Count: 3378
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

This shift in economic power gives Laura a certain preeminence in their relationship. The irony, however, is that she did not use this power to dictate terms within the relationship. ... Maria Josephine Barrios an associate professor at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature of the University of the Philippines quotes Singaporean playwright Stella Kohn as saying that a Feminine Female is someone who has yielded to a society which tells her that "Your life is meaningless, you have no value, except as you are a wife and mother; then be the very devil of a wife and mother" (31). ...

• Word Count: 2791
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School