I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. -- Mary Wollstonecraft. She was the author of the A Vindication of the Rights of Women, an early feminist treatise.
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it himself; and the wife smiles, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that. -- J.M. Barrie, British author of Peter Pan