Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

Roles for women need to be better written.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

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.

It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.