Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.

To me, it's disheartening when you have someone take away everything you've done as a woman because of a man.

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

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?

I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

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.

As soon as woman raises her voice or uses her pen in defense- however cool and earnest- of her own side of the question, there is an immediate outcry made in order to drown her. It is so easy for men to talk of ‘the clamor of shrill voices,’ ‘the cackle of female tongues,’ that in the pleasure of so describing them they occasionally forget that they have not answered their opponents’ argument…

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

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

I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.

I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.