Siobhan Fahey Quotes

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

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

It's exhausting being a woman.

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.

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

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

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

Sexism is real.

If you're born a woman, you have a pre-existing condition.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

As men, we can never fully understand the experience women go through.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right.

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.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

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

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.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

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.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

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