Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

I'd never write off a whole sex.

In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

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.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.

I really hate having to put 'female' in front of any title, because it puts us in some kind of weird category for handicapped people or something.

If anyone says they haven't experienced sexism then I don't know what life they've lived. Males and females have, for different reasons, and I don't think it's a media thing.

In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder to determine whether they're actually committing sexism or thinking in a sexist way.

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.