Masai Ujiri Quotes

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Our ancestors saw fit that females, by reason of levity of disposition, shall remain in guardianship, even when they have attained their majority

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

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

I think when it comes to women who write or who fancy ourselves 'hip downtown literati', there is a certain contempt for being overly sexual or really looking for boyfriends. We tend to be marginalized as some 'Sex & The City' Carrie Bradshaw chick-lit dummies who just want shoes and a ring.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

For 150 years a woman was regarded as some kind of prostitute if she wanted to go into business….Young girls were supposed to have their focus on motherhood and babies.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.