On the topic of International Women's Day

Literary thought, related to several recent bits of reading matter on how biased the world's approach to women is and how vital feminism still is:


"I could bring you fifty quotations in a moment on my side the argument, and I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps, you will say, these were all written by men."

"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands."

- Captain Harville and Anne Elliot, Persuasion, Jane Austen, 1816


Progress still required, undoubtedly, but we have come a very long way in 200 years.