Vera Brittain Quotes

The emancipation of women will only be possible if the traditional world of men also changes.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

All theories of chivalry and generosity and vicarious representation fall, before the fact that woman has been grossly wronged by man. That being the case, the only modest and honest thing for man to do is to say, "Henceforward have a voice in making your own laws." Till this is done, she has no sure safeguard, since otherwise the same men who made the old barbarous laws may at any time restore them.

Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men’s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

Women are still second-class citizens.