Michelle Bachelet Quotes

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes, you can't really do much. You can point out when people discriminate and ask them not to.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.

The women’s movement is at heart revolutionary for it aims at a fundamental reorganization of all forms of human living together, a reorganization that perhaps Social Democracy does not even dream of.

… all the baggage of a paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Topple the Patriarchy

It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.

The point of privilege and the notion of mansplaining is that sometimes I definitely feel like I should shut up. That's it functioning. That's the notion of privilege functioning.

A lot of political things would have to dramatically change in this planet for a woman of color to be carefree.

#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.

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.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

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

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.