Amanda Foreman Quotes

Romantic paternalism … put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

Marriage has ever been a one-sided matter, resting most unequally upon the sexes. By it, man gains all- woman loses all; tyrant law and lust reign supreme with him- meek submission and ready obedience alone befit her.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found … largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

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

In 1857 the Divorce Act was passed, and, as is well known, set up by law a different moral standard for men and women. Under this Act which is still in force a man can obtain the dissolution of the marriage if he can prove one act of infidelity on the part of his wife; but a woman cannot get her marriage dissolved unless she can prove that her husband has been guilty both of infidelity and cruelty.

Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

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.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical.

'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his. And that permission flourished in the psyches of all kinds of men.