Elizabeth Missing Sewell Quotes

I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

I don't like boys. They're kind of annoying.

... to say that men are the only ones who can have this experience is ludicrous, and to say that for these reasons: "there will never be any really great women writers in the theatre," is equally funny because as a rule women know not only what men know but much that men will never know.”

Feminism has changed the way women think, and it has changed the way men think, but the trouble is, it hasn't changed the attitudes of babies at all.

There are no boys in this game.

It should be common knowledge that women and men can talk about sports.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of pop culture feminism. I did not understand anything else about feminism.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

If you raise an intelligent girl she will become a feminist because of the facts of her own life. Raising feminist boys is more difficult. Raising egalitarian boys. One of the reasons you have to raise them that way is because it's better for them.

I do feel like I'm a survivor because the music industry is still a boys' club. I really respect all the women in the business. I know trusting yourself is hard work but it helps you avoid all the traps and labels that come with being in this business.

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.

Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.

When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.

What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

Marriage is made out to be so important for girls but the focus has to shift at some point from marriage to the real challenges of life which are the same for women and men, so we have to prepare our girls just the way we prepare our boys.