The legal subordination of one sex to another – is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.John Stuart Mill
What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing – the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.John Stuart Mill
No one can be a good legislator who does not add to an acute understanding a fair share of intuitive powers.John Stuart Mill
The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes– the legal subordination of one sex to the other– is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.John Stuart Mill
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.John Stuart Mill
Women cannot be expected to devote themselves to the emancipation of women, until men are just enough to no longer obstruct their efforts.John Stuart Mill
To deny that women’s nature differs from men’s is to do it the greatest wrong.John Stuart Mill
But the education of humanity, viewed in its broadest aspect, must be such as to touch and develop all the human capacities of the nature.John Stuart Mill
The difficulty is that which exists in all cases in which there is a mass of feeling to be contended against. So long as opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.John Stuart Mill
While the artificial state remains, it is vain to expect that the natural state can be investigated with any certainty.John Stuart Mill