Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

When woman reigns the devil governs.

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.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

There’s no more despised figure on earth than a woman who seeks power.

The GOP will not be satisfied until women are barefoot, pregnant and back home by 5 o'clock P.M. to cook dinner.

Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

I love my sons, I love my husband, and I love my country. But in kingdoms of men, there are few - if any - choices for women. Or the choices are such that there is no greater pain than having to choose.

As soon as you are a woman with an opinion, and they don't like it, the haters will come out in full force.

Some suggest that, as a woman, I meddle in political affairs and need to be 'put in my place.'

As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

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

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

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.