Zainab Salbi Quotes

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

I don't think women are dumb.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

It's okay, when we as women are in a serving role. But it's not okay, it appears, still, when we have full access to power.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

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

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

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

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

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

No one knows what women want!

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.