Donna Brazile Quotes

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

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.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.