Lisa Vanderpump Quotes

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult.

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.'

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

Marriage is such a lottery …. the poor woman is virtually a slave to her husband.

There can be no question that women should have equal rights with men.... Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man's name.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

Women in Tamil Nadu are repressed. This must change.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

As a woman, I have no country

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

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

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.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I still consider myself a feminist.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.