Marisa Tomei Quotes

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

I don't think anyone wants to be gay.

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.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.