1696: Nataliia Kobrynska on Feminism, Freedom, and Women’s Rights
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/06/04
“The women’s question has penetrated too deeply into my soul.”
“The women’s question reaches further: it embraces all fields in which woman, as woman, is wronged — in social positions, insofar as she is excluded from them; in higher culture; and finally in the field of both public and civil law, insofar as this law treats women differently from men.”
“In general, women have never acted against men as such, but only against the social order — that order which made men masters and pushed women into the position of slaves, excluded from the protection of equal rights, even from education and material independence.”
“I declare to men that we can live with them in common thought for a common idea, and we do not regard ourselves merely as eternal candidates for their hearts.”
“It must be so that woman, as a conscious human being, stands beside the conscious man.”
“Woman has always and everywhere been able to understand the spirit of her time and the demands of her society.”
“In all the great evolutions of human development, woman has taken an active part.”
“We set ourselves the aim of influencing the development of women’s spirit through literature, because literature has always been a faithful image of the bright and dark sides of the social order, its needs and deficiencies.”
“In times of political unfreedom, literature becomes one refuge of freedom.”
“Our possibilities are as small as our milieu, but our work is as great as our aims.”
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