Rain Dove Quotes

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

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.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

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

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

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.

She is a great man whose only flaw is that she is a woman.

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

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

You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?

Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'