Understood

Famous quotes containing the word understood:

    Good writers have two things in common: they would rather be understood than admired, and they do not write for hairsplitting and hypercritical readers.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.
    Ashley Montagu (b. 1905)

    ...I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.
    Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)