Sarah Silverman Quotes

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics...? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?

For more than six thousand years the history of woman has been one of hopeless sadness. She moved only to the clank of chains, and her vain desire for better and higher things could not find expression, for woman was by force of circumstances inarticulate. Detraction of one sex and exaltation of the other became a habit of mind expressed in law, in religion, in literature as well as in the ordinary activities of everyday life.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

Let every woman ask herself, Why am I the slave of Man? Why is my brain said not to be equal of his brain? Why is my work not paid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband, giving me in exchange what he deems fit?

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

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.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

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

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

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.

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

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.