Shoojit Sircar Quotes

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Being a woman is really crap.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

If anyone says they haven't experienced sexism then I don't know what life they've lived. Males and females have, for different reasons, and I don't think it's a media thing.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

I'm not involved with the female world.

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

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

[Women’s subjugation to men] is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.

I do not have the female experience. I don't, and I strive to understand it, but I'll never truly be able to. I don't think any men will, really.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.

As a man, you will never know how a woman feels.

You have a different experience as a woman walking through life; you just do.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.