Matilda Joslyn Gage Quotes

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

All religions have always hated females.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

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

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

The pedestal that women were placed upon often turned out to be a cage.

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

Most of the parents in India, especially in smaller towns, fear for daughters due to the inhuman treatment meted out to them. They want her to go away, saying, 'You're not my responsibility anymore.' I don't understand: why don't we nurture our girls?

My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.