Fela Kuti Quotes

The common man thinks that the marriage is like appointing one to do his work. The husband thinks so! The husband’s family thinks so. Every one thinks that a girl is coming to the family to do work. Even the girl’s family trains the girl to do the household work

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

In Spanish, we have a saying: 'The woman and the frying pan belong in the kitchen.' Ohhhh, I hate it!

I think, especially growing up in the South, we are taught that women are supposed to be soft, gentle and kind of just goes along with everything and is submissive.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.