Sarah Zettel Quotes

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

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 truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill.

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

The history of women has been a history of silence.

As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.