Madeleine Albright Quotes

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

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.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

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

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

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations.... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

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.

Naturally I knew it was ridiculous to deprive half the people of the country of any voice in the laws they had to live under, merely on account of a trifling difference in sex, but I did not think anything I could do about it was likely to be helpful.

Quebec women are treated like sows.

Land belongs to the men folk.

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

[Women’s subjugation to men] is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

Sexism is real.

I never realized how hurtful people can be. They hate me so much for being a female in a men's sport. And I'm just like, 'Really? It's 2016, people. Women can do anything.'

Micro sexism can grow into a much greater problem.