Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

Sexism is real.

If someone is being misogynistic, you have to name it. It's not convenient to talk about discrimination, but if you don't do it, you allow it to exist. So you have to name it.

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

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

By sheer force of a vicious custom even the most ignorant and worthless of men have been enjoying a superiority [over women] which they do not deserve and ought not to have.

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

[Women’s subjugation to men] is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

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

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

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

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

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

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.