Golda Meir Quotes

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

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

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

If you're funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.