Sara Pascoe Quotes

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

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.

Patriarchy is a political system just like colonialism was a political system.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

Sexism is real.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

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.

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

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

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.