Jim Elliot Quotes

Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

I'd never disrespect women. I have been brought up to treat women with courtesy and dignity.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

A woman should be an illusion.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

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

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.