Princess Nokia Quotes

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

By sheer force of a vicious custom even the most ignorant and worthless of men have been enjoying a superiority [over women] which they do not deserve and ought not to have.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.