Mary Astell Quotes

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

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.

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

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

As soon as woman raises her voice or uses her pen in defense- however cool and earnest- of her own side of the question, there is an immediate outcry made in order to drown her. It is so easy for men to talk of ‘the clamor of shrill voices,’ ‘the cackle of female tongues,’ that in the pleasure of so describing them they occasionally forget that they have not answered their opponents’ argument…

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.

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

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

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.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

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.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

I don't think women are dumb.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.