Elisha Cuthbert Quotes

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

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then 'Pride and Prejudice' is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery of the female characters' reality. My new reaction was sadness and fury. Knowledge ruins everything!

I think a lot of women have felt really powerless.

I feel, in our culture, the girl with any sort of power is called 'difficult' or various words that are demeaning just because she has a voice, has confidence, and stands for her rights. It is sad, but it is the truth of our country.

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

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.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.