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Anna Doyle Wheeler Quotes on Politics

Anna Doyle Wheeler was an Irish-born British socialist and feminist philosopher of the early nineteenth century, the principal philosophical collaborator of William Thompson and one of the founding figures of the British socialist-feminist tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler:

    “Until the means of subsistence are equal between the sexes, equality between them is a fiction.”

  • Attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler:

    “The Appeal is on behalf of one half the human race against the pretensions of the other.”

  • Attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler:

    “Owenite cooperation is the political form in which sexual equality may at last be lived.”

  • Attributed to Anna Doyle Wheeler:

    “What women suffer is not nature's fault but custom's, and custom may be remade.”