P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Who laughs less than feminists?

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

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?

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

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

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.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

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

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

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!

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

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.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

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.