Joyce Banda Quotes

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

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.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

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

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The progress of man has never been impeded by preconceived ideas regarding his abilities, his proper interests, and his appropriate activities. Woman has always been so hampered.

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …