Florence Prag Kahn Quotes

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Politics is not the Business of a Woman.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

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

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world—except a woman-governed world.

Do you think it would be possible for women to make a worse mess of politics than the men have?

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

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.

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.”

When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just expressing what most males, and maybe most females, felt at that time? Or are both true?

Are Republican women politicians more 'feminine' than Democratic women politicians?

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

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

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

I'd say I am partial to women.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!