Joseph Conrad Quotes

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.

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.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

I'm not involved with the female world.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

Women didn't go to school when they were young because parents preferred to send their brothers. The women couldn't access loans in their own right because the banks sought the approval of a male dependent.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.... The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Land belongs to the men folk.

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …

The GOP will not be satisfied until women are barefoot, pregnant and back home by 5 o'clock P.M. to cook dinner.

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.