Sara Pascoe Quotes

Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the patriarchy. This also implies that women must be on the receiving end, waiting - politely - to be empowered. Very Victorian-era courtship, isn't it?

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

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

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

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.

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

Knowing the horror that most women have of anything approaching irreverence, the Bible has been called out to play the part of a scarecrow on the rich fields of men’s monopolies…Men have had the management of all things human for six thousand years…Has the result been so eminently successful that we need dread a little change?