Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Being a woman is really crap.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

Have you ever seen a man darning socks? So therefore a woman cannot be a combat pilot.

If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

Sexism is real.

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.