Scott Westerfeld Quotes

What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.

I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.

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

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

All religions have always hated females.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

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

It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip.