Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes

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

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.

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

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

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

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

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

Not regarded as the equals of men.

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