Amartya Sen Quotes

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

I think in the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isn't really that comparable to that in the Middle East.

As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

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

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

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

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.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

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