Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

There are certain restrictive parts of a woman’s constitution that that were given her by nature and which forbid us from applying the same standard of expectation to women as to men.

The very being and existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage

Saudi women far outnumber their male counterparts on university campuses but are reduced to watching men far less qualified control every aspect of their lives.

Islamic Law [Sharia] … gives men the right to marry more than one woman, and refers to women as “complementary” rather than “equal” to men.

Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

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.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

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